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Railway Age Magazine

Description: Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains. Topics include streamlined trains; new lightweight equipment; speeds of streamlined name trains; new construction materials and structures; routes of streamliners.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1939-1946
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.

Railway Age Magazine

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Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains.

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Trains Magazine

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Some partial issues; articles related to streamline trains.

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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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Four books: 1) "Diesel Spotter's Guide." by Jerry A. Pinkepank. Intended to be a comprehensive list of (U.S.) Diesel locomotives up to 1966. Listed by manufacturer. B/W photos, tables of specifications, descriptive paragraphs. (Kalmbach Pub. Co., Milwaukee, WI., 1967) 2) "From Zephyr to Amtrak, A Guide to Lightweight cars and Streamliners" by David Randall and Alan R. Lynd. (Prototype Publications, Park Forest, Ill., 1972) 3) "Railway Passenger Car Annual, Vol. 1, 1973-1974. Intercity Mainline and Commuter Rosters." by W. David Randall and Zenon R. Hansen. (RPC Publications, 1974) 4) "Streamline, Le Design American Des Annees 30-40." by Olivier Boissiere. Photos, b/w and color, of streamline, art deco objects and designers (Rivages/Styles, Paris, 1987)

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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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