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I picked up some new books-

Modern Locomotives High-Horsepower Diesels 1966-2000-

A nice book for big pictures and information about the "high-horspower" diesels. It was good for the bargain-books section at the bookstore.

New York City Elecrified Railroads in Color Volume 2: Lines into Pennsylvania Station-

A fairly awesome Morning Sun book (at least for me), which covers the New York City electrified zones North and South of Pennsylvania Station, covering a lot of the New Haven, across the Hell's Gate Bridge to Sunnyside Yard, then into Penn station, and west (south) into New Jersey (aka, the area I model). Its also pretty good since it has a good "spread" of time periods, with a good spread of photos from the 1950s to the present day (though most seem pre-1974), instead of just focusing on the transition and early diesel eras.

I'll definitely pick up Volume 1 of this book, which covers Grand Central Terminal electrified trains.

I have also picked up a few more railroad operations books, most of which are convenient given my recent Reading Company electrification attempts-

Conrail

Eastern Region Reading Division ETT 4/30/1978-

Eastern Region Philadelphia Division Reading Commuter Territory ETT 10/29/1978-

Eastern Region Harrisburg and Philadelphia Division Timetable #1 4/27/1980-


All three of these Eastern Region timetables cover the same area, except for the last one, which also includes the rest of the Philadelphia commuter district (the PRR lines) and Southern new Jersey (including the tracks by my home, as well as the former PRSL lines and passenger schedules between Lindenwold and Atlantic City, Ocean City, Wildwood, and Cape May). All of them still have the commuter schedule pages (which appears to be uncommon, as many Conrail Timetables I find lack the train schedules, and only have the special instructions). Between my Atlantic Region Timetables and this Eastern Region one, I have almost all of New Jersey covered. For some reason, I think I might be missing an Lehigh Division timetable (which belongs to the Atlantic Region), but I'll have to check again.

The Reading Green cars I have as kits were still running into 1978 as well, so these would be ideal to use as guidance into those projects, as there are special instructions for those cars as well as the Silverliners.

Conrail Freight Schedules 4/1/1981- This is actually a surprisingly complete book. Many of these are available on the internet in PDF form though pages tend to be missing, and not all necessary trains included. If only I had this for june 1979 and totally complete! It covers every train on the Conrail system, what sort of consist, and where/when it runs. This is VERY useful for a modeler, especially someone trying to get the Conrail operations right.

I also acquired an addition C.T.400 Rules for Conducting Transportation in the bunch.