Rare Books

Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania

Description: Includes (selected items): photographs; book: "South Australian Railways, Locomotives, Steam and Diesel, Electric and Rolling Stock" (1964); brochures: Trans-Australian Railway; Commonwealth Railways; Tasmanian Railway Passenger Services, The Tasman Limited; New South Wales Government Railways; blueprints of locomotives.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1951-2000
Call number: 646607
Creator: Merrill, Leslie O(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Leslie O. Merrill, 1976-2008.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania

Rare Books

Includes train(s): The Ghan; Trans Australian; The Queensland; The Sunlander; The Westlander; The Capricornian; The Overland; Canberra Link; The Vinelander; The Indian Pacific; others. Includes (selected items): photographs; Southern Cross Express (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne); The XPT Experience, Sydney to Dubbo; The Victorian Railways (1937?); New Zealand Railways; Australian National Locomotives (Tasmania); The Darling Harbour Monorail, TNT Harbourlink (Sydney); others.

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Europe: Switzerland

Rare Books

Includes photographs. Materials include "Jungfrau Railway, Switzerland." History and description of mountain railway route (1940s?); electric railways; Swiss Federal Railways; book: "Railway Electrification In Switzerland, with Special Reference to the Swiss Federal Railways and their Rolling-Stock. Paper Read before the Institution of Locomotive Engineers by H. Loosli, Swiss Federal Railways" (1954).

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Europe: Germany

Rare Books

Books: 1) "Krauss-Maffei Diesel Hydraulic ML - 4000 C'C'." Operating manual republished by Old Line Publishers, Milwaukee, WI (1963) 2) "Trans Europ Express, TEE, Der Werdegang des TEE-Betriebe." By Dr. Fritz Stockl (1971) 3) "Locomotives--Lokomotiven... Made In Germany." Catalog of locomotives made for railroads in various countries (1966)

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Far East; Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, China

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): book: "Royal State Railways of Siam, Fiftieth Anniversary, 1897-1947" (1947); "South Manchuria Railway Company" guidebook (1938); snapshot photographs of trains in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Manila.

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Middle East; India

Rare Books

Includes photographs. Materials on Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, India. Timetable: "Iraqi State Railways Public Time Table for Principal Stations" (1952); snapshots and photographs of trains in Iraq; blueprints for Iraqi State Railways - Standard Gauge..." (1943); Indian Railways photographs; others.

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Norfolk and Western Railway Company

Rare Books

Includes train(s): Powhatan Arrow; Pocahontas. Includes (selected items): booklet: "Modern Coal-Burning Steam Locomotives of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company." Three locomotives pictured and described (1945); Booklet: "The End of the Line, Pocahontas, the Wabash Cannon Ball, Norfolk and Western." Commemorative booklet with reprints of promotional material.

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Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania

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