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Manufacturers: General Motors (Aerotrain and AMT-125)
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Northern Pacific Railroad Company
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New York Central Railroad Company
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Includes train(s): Xplorer. Includes (selected items): press kit: "New York Central System's XPLORER" Highlighting aluminum construction, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton mechanical-hydraulic diesel locomotive (1956); Press kit: "The Woman's Angle on the New York Central's New Xplorer." Includes "Hostess Service on the Xplorer" (4 p.); "Railroading as a Field for Women" (2 p.); "'Cruisin' Susan' Service" (2 p.); "The Xplorer Design, Color and Comfort, A new Concept in Travel for Women" (1956).
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Penn Central Transportation Company
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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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Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard
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Includes (selected items): photographs; booklet: "Color and Design in Passenger Equipment." Color pictures of interiors printed for railroad purchasing officers. Page 10 has color renderings of "Three new revenue producers...": City of Denver," "Green Diamond," "Daylight." (1937).
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Manufacturers: General Motors (Electro-Motive Division - EMD)
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Includes (selected items): photographs; book: "Our GM Scrapbook, from the pages of Trains." (1971); "Diesel, The Modern Power" by Ralph A. Richardson. History and operation of Diesel engines of all sizes. (1942); "General Motors Diesels In Review, 1934 -- 1944. 10th Anniversary of Diesel Road Power on American Railroad" (1944).
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