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Trains Magazine
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Canada: Canadian Pacific
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Includes train(s): The Canadian; The Royal York; The Dominion. Includes brochures: "Announcing The Royal York, new lightweight, semi-streamlined, steam train with air-conditioned coaches between Toronto and Detroit." Jubilee locomotive described (1936); "The Canadian Streamliner and other Canadian Pacific Equipment." (1960s); "Trains...and the travelling public. CP Rail." Describes CP's efforts to discontinue "uneconomic passenger services" (1960s).
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Railroad rosters; Spotter's guides
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Railroad rosters
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Two books: "Diesel Locomotive Rosters, The Railroad Magazine Series." Compiled by Sy Reich (technical editor of Railroad Magazine). Lists of Diesel engines owned by "almost all the large roads and hundreds of short lines." (1973?); and "Car Names, Numbers and Consists." A roster of streamlined and lightweight passenger and "certain groups" of heavyweight cars rebuilt for streamlined trains. Brief sections on Train of Tomorrow, Aerotrain, Talgo, and Train X. Some floor plans. (New York, Wayner Publications, 1972).
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
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Includes (selected items): 60 photographic postcards of various Santa Fe streamliners.
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