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Your Railroad Book Library - Green_Elite_Cab - 03-01-2011
I was organizing my now lacking book shelf space when I decided to take a look at the railroad books i owned. Somehow, i've managed to accumulate quite a few on all different railroad subjects. Tell us about yours!
Here is mine, though i didn't include my magazines or model railroad books (of which i have at least ten more)
Official Railroad documents-
Lehigh Valley Railroad Brake and Train Air Signal Instructions, 1/1/1955
Lehigh Valley Engineers Minutes
Lehigh Valley System Map
Conrail CT290 Electrical Operating Instructions, 1978
New Jersey Transit Electrical Operating Instructions, 2006
Amtrak AEM7-AC Operators manual
CSX system map
Railroad History Books
- MBI Railroad Color History: Pennsylvania Railroad
- On the Mainline: The Pennsylvania Railroad in the 19th Century
- Pennsy Electric Years Volume 1
- Pennsy Electric Years Volume 2
- The Pennsylvania: The eastern Lines
- The Pennsylvania railroad under wire
- Trackside under Pennsy Wires
- PRR Hudson to Horseshoe
- Pennsy Electric Pictorial
- Pennsy's P5 Electrics
- New Haven Color Pictorial Volume one: The West End
- The New Haven Railroad: The Final Decade
- The EP5 Jets
- MBI Railroad Color History: Penn Central
- MBI Railroad Color History: Amtrak
- Amtrak Annual 1978-1979
- Amtrak at Milepost 10
- MBI Railroad Color History: Conrail
- Conrail, Volume one 1976-1982
- Conrail Motive Power Review volume one 1976-1986
- Under Pennsy Wires
- Trains of the Northeast Corridor
- Reading During the Conrail Era Book One
- Reading During the Conrail Era Book Two
- Electric Trains to Reading Terminal
- Trackside Around The Delaware Valley 1963 to 1983
- The Lindenwold High Speed Line: The First Twenty Years of the Port Authority Transit Corporation
- Trackside Around New Jersey 1968-1983
- West Jersey Rails Volume 2
- Steam To Diesel in New Jersey
- The Lehigh Valley Across New Jersey
- Iron Horses Across the Garden State
- NJ transit Rail Operations
- The Burlington And Mount Holly Trolley Lines/ Burlington and Mount Holly Traction R.R. CO./ Burlington County Transit Company
- MBI Railroad Color History: CSX
- MBI Railroad Color History: Norfolk Southern
- Milwaukee Road Bi-Polar Electrics
- Electric Locomotives
- The Electric Locomotive Plan and Photo Book
- Locomotives: The Modern Diesel and Electric Reference
- GE Locomotives
- U-Boats: General Electric's Diesel Locomotives
- North American Diesel Locomotive Spotter Guide
- American Steam Locomotives
- The History of North American Steam
- Pictorial History of North American Railroads
- Steel Wheels Rolling
You ever get the feeling i should have been a juice jack?
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - nkp_174 - 03-01-2011
Gee, someone obviously isn't interested in the Eastern PA/NJ area
I make extensive use of libraries and borrowing from my father. When I do buy a book, it is usually one that is hard to find (Hawaiian WW2 Photo Album) or a technology study (Birth of California NG, John H. White's books, Car Builder Dictionaries, etc).
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - Green_Elite_Cab - 03-01-2011
Yeah, the main county library is right near my home, but they don't have anything exciting in the way of railroad books. the good ones they have i already owned, and bought before they did. At least i read them though. Many books i got for free or discounts on the understanding that i'd read them, and boy do they get read. I think i need to got o my library to help put new covers on some of the books.
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - railohio - 03-01-2011
How about if I show you...
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Recognize any books you own?
And that doesn't include timetables, track charts, maps, rule books, photographs, most magazines, or books purchased in the last two years.
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - Green_Elite_Cab - 03-01-2011
ah, i only see the Conrail Volume one. I've been meaning to find a Volume 2. Still, nice book shelf, more train books than mine.
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - railohio - 03-01-2011
If you're talking about the Scot Hartley Conrail books from Railpace they are both there side-by-side.
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - Green_Elite_Cab - 03-02-2011
nah, I saw them, I meant i've never gotten aroung to purchasing them. Same with the Motive Power review books. Technically, the books i have satisfy my research needs as far as my layout goes, but Conrail is my favorite class one, so i''m always looking to add to that collection.
Almost definitely going to buy "Conrail in Color Volume 1" when it comes out around May from Morning Sun books.
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - tomustang - 03-02-2011
Only book I have is Railroads of Pennsylvania. Picked it up at Steamtown on the gauge trip
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - MasonJar - 03-02-2011
Most of mine are related to railways in Eastern Ontario (e.g. Over the Hills to Georgian Bay, In Search of the K&P (out of print about the Kingston & Pembroke Rwy), or around my hometown of Orangeville (Steam Trains Through Orangeville and maps, etc). I also have a couple of Ian Wilson's excellent series, and CNR related documents and maps.
Andrew
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - rrinker - 03-02-2011
Mine is, naturally, mostly Reading Railroad books, but I don't have them all recorded like my locos and cars. I have 3 small (2 shelf - well they are 3 but only 2 levels of full-size books and magazines fit) booksheves full of my Model Railroader and other magazine collection, in plastic orgainzers with the year labeled. I have another of the same shelves filled with books, then I have stacks of magazines alewhere as well as some books in boxes yet, I need move bookshelves. These fit nicely unde rm,y layout, as opposed to a big tall one that would hold more but be an obstacle to build around.
--Randy
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - P5se Camelback - 03-03-2011
What a great Idea this thread was, G. Cab!
I've been cataloging all of my other model railroad stuff in an Excel file ... Locomotives, Rolling Stock, Structures, Vehicles, Etc. So why not all my Reference Materials ... Hard Bound, Soft Bound, DVD, VHS, Periodicals, Prototype Documentation ... all of it??!!!
Great Idea ... and probably an eye-opener! Do we all know how much stuff we REALLY have?
This will take at least a couple minutes to gather together.
8-) I'll join in the fun ...
... shortly. 
:mrgreen:
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - Lester Perry - 03-03-2011
As I sit here in my study looking at my books I see one shelf about 16" long that contains my railroad books. I see 5 shelves about 48" long and 4 shelves about 16" long that contain my Bible study books.
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - MasonJar - 03-03-2011
P5se Camelback Wrote:This will take at least a couple minutes to gather together.
I'll join in the fun ...
... shortly.
:mrgreen:
Ummm, biL - Time's up... that was ~10 hours ago...!
Andrew
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - P5se Camelback - 03-03-2011
Patience ...
... Young Jedi ...
... Patience!
Re: Your Railroad Book Library - Russ Bellinis - 03-04-2011
I'm organizing my railroad room now prior to building the layout. My library is divided between cars and railroad books. My current project is to go through all of my model railroad mags and cut out the articles that I want to save, and put the rest into the recycle bin. Most of my railroad books are on the Santa Fe. My latest interest is in finding any book or magazine that has color pictures of the interiors of Santa Fe passenger equipment. It is amazing how many rail fans took photos of the exterior of passenger trains in the past, but almost no one ever took a pic of the interior!