NESL,V4#1:DEVELOPMENT OF RUTLAND MOTIVE POWER 1900-1963; SUGAR BARRELS & SHAYS !

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Your bid is for The NEW ENGLAND STATES LIMITED, Volume 4, Number 1, with an inside cover date of September 1981. This issue measures 21.5 by 27.9 cm and contains 40 pages. The front cover sports Rutland Pacific No. 85 running at the authorized 55 MPH southbound thru Proctor, Vermont, with Train No. 64. The Mail Bag and RUNNING EXTRA start things off as usual. Editor and Publisher, Donald B. Valentine, Jr., rambles on about Conrail and the Feds and all that now historically interesting opinion and information. More interesting to me, perhaps, is that, already V3#1&2 are sold out, but a complete set of V1&2 are available at .00 postpaid. Collectors take note. NEW ENGLAND RAIL NEWS covers 4 columns and includes a photo of Cape Cod & Hyannis engine "one". Now is that a number or a name? SUGAR BARRELS AND SHAYS by William G. Gove tells The Northeast Kingdom story of The New Hampshire Stave & Heading Company Logging Railroad, which ran up the East Branch of the Nulhegan River in Essex County, Vermont, from the Grand Trunk Railway connection, which it used to reach the mill across the Connecticut River in North Stratford NH. This definitive article on a fascinating, but perhaps somewhat typical New England logging railroad, covers a full 10 pages and includes a large map and 15 photographs. Don't miss it! THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUTLAND MOTIVE POWER, 1900 TO 1963 by Donald B. Valentine, Jr., covers this subject over 15 pages ranging from 4-4-0's to RS-3's and includes 22 photos, including 2 in color, plus a color centerfold of Consolidation No. 16 at Norwood, New York. Some photos are of fine quality, some are dark, but all give you the feeling for the operating museum that the Rutland Railroad was for much of its life in the 20th century. THE BACK SHOP continues with the Rutland Steam Power modeling theme and includes 7 more Rutland prototype photos, plus 1 model. Then we move on to B&M "Mudsuckers" Santa Fe-type steam locomotives covered in detail on 4 pages with 8 photos. The rear cover sports two more Rutland glory days steam photos in color with a shiny Pacific by Stephen R. Payne and a ten-wheeler by David C. Bartlett. Included is a rare ledger-sized photocopied map of the North Stratford NH yard of the New Hampshire Stave & Heading Co. and a photocopy of the Subscriber's Newsletter for this issue. This magazine is in excellent condition, showing no signs of being read, but it is a bit stiff in the spine area from unheated Vermont storage, so I list it as used.
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