R&LHS 223:VIRGINIAN RY;SLAVES IN NC;PSGR MERGING;GOLDEN GATE SPECIAL;RR BANKERS!

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Your bid is for the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society RAILROAD HISTORY No. 223, with a publication cover date of FALL-WINTER 2020. This standard-magazine-sized book measures 21.0 by 26.6 cm and contains 128 pages, plus the stiff wraps, with Dan Cupper as Editor. The front cover shows a Virginian Railway coal train in Celco, Va., in a work by Stanley Barriger. In EDITOR’S SEATBOX, our new editor is Making Transition, as his machines often did when Dan was a locomotive engineer, from being deputy editor to editor of RRH following the untimely and tragic death of young Peter Hansen. The 1
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SHORT TAKES remembers the Mount Beacon Incline Ry over 4 pages. The 2
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discusses Building Bridges to the Public on 3 pages and notes our lack of a national railroad museum so ever bit helps. The 3
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ST is a single page tribute to UP 4014. PRINT & IMAGE documents how the N&W and Southern Ry merger advertisement was staged. “THE RICHEST LITTLE RAILROAD IN THE WORLD”, A Brief History of the Virginian Railway by Joseph A. Strapac is spread out over 30 pages. Included is a complete system roster of all steam, electric and diesel locomotives. There are 39 illustrations, mostly of steam locomotives, including the monstrous No.700 2-8-8-8-4 Triplex. TWISTING METAL, Slave Labor and the North Carolina Railroads, by Alex Wetherington is 10 pages of details of how the railroads paid slave owners for use of their property and what those slaves were asked to accomplish. An extensive bibliography and notes will takes you further if you wish. In CUTTING AND PASTING, Ira Silverman enlightens us on how the Pennsylvania, B&O & New York Central once considered combining their psgr services to both give better service and save psgr train miles. These 8 illustrated pages show how difficult change can be in the railroad industry. America’s First Transcontinental Luxury Passenger Train, THE GOLDEN GATE SPECIAL, by Thornton Waite, is featured over 18 pages in exquisite detail. Amazing for a train that only ran for six months in 1888/1889. Yet it was the first in many respects and set a precedent for what was to come. Its short life may be blamed on track conditions. As always, the delight is in the details and 11 drawings and a dining car menu provide plenty. DEATH BY GUNFIRE, The Killing of Four Chesapeake & Ohio Employees by Charles H. Bogart is a set of short tales on 4 pages. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANIES, 1833 to 1840, by Pete Claussen covers this subject on 5 pages that include 6 illustrations of the currency once in use. BOOK DIVISION begins with Slave Labor on Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad by Mary E. Lyons and is followed by a small book I found fascinating by Susie Gaglia: An American Dream: My Life as a Railroad Engineer. 23 books are reviewed, followed by WORTH READING and the R&LHS AWARDS. MEMORIALS are devoted to Peter A. Hansen, Robert J. Wayner and James A. Brown. DISCUSSION on 2 pages is interesting as usual. This book is in perfect, new-old-stock condition right out of the printer’s shipping carton. Your satisfaction guaranteed. Please see my other eBay auctions for more rare and scarce railroad paper. I provide personal service without silly eBay games like waiting for payment before shipping, mandated payment methods, clumsy communications and charging for return shipping. Please check my feedback and DSR's. Everything I sell is POSTPAID USA, so the winning bid is what you pay, plus eBay’s state tax if applicable, unless you want special services. I normally ship first day after auction ends IF I have a payment plan & a proper shipping address, or you are a recent previous buyer. Thank you for reading. Alden Dreyer, 91 Reynolds Road, Shelburne MA 01370-9649. Copyright by AHD August 2021.