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RAILWAYS & RAILROADS - SIGNALLING & MAINTENANCE

RARE BOOK COLLECTION


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The Digital Library is proud to present truly unique collection of vintage books, documents and magazines on railroad / railway signalling and maintenance, scanned in high quality and preserved forever in PDF format - a wonderful virtual library.

Containing some really hard-to-find collectable books and documents, this fabulous collection covers all things to do with railroad signalling, railway management and organisation, railcar maintenance and railroad engineering.

This fantastic collection of books provides hundreds of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations from days gone by. All of the files are presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or Kindle / ebook reader. All of the files are fully “searchable” and you can also print entire books or just select to print certain pages. The full list of titles speaks for itself....

Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely difficult to find and will provide a valuable library of reference material for anyone with an interest in the history of railroads and railway memorabilia.

This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in HQ and preserved forever in modern pdf format, easy to read on any laptop, computer, e-reader, tablet or even smartphone. You can also print any page you wish, or even books in their entirety.



Full List of Books Included:


A catalogue of the devices and their parts by The Union Switch & Signal Company (1894)



Addresses delivered before the World's Railway Commerce Congress, held in Chicago, Ill., June 19-23, 1893 (1893)



American practice in block signaling - with descriptions and drawings of the different systems in use on railroads in the United States (1891)



American railway management by H. S. Haines (1897)



Automatic block signals and signal circuits by R. Scott (1908)



British railways; their organisation, and management by H. M. Ross (1904)



Car lubrication by W. E. Hall (1891)



Efficient railway operation by H. S. Haines (1919)



Electric interlocking handbook by H. M. Sperry (1913)



Electric locking, including a number of chapters which appeared originally in the Railway signal engineer by J. Anderson (1918)



Letters from an old railway official - Second series - His son, a general manager by C. D. Hine (1912)



Letters from an old railway official to his son, a division superintendent by C. D. Hine (1904)



Power railway signalling by H. R. Wilson (1909)



Railroad freight transportation by L. F. Loree (1922)



Railway block signalling - the principles of train signalling and apparatus for ensuring safety by J. Pigg (1899)



Railway property; a treatise on the construction and management of railways by J. B. Jervis (1888)



Railway service; trains and stations. Describing the manner of operating trains, and the duties of train and station officials by M. M. Kirkman (1878)



Railway signaling by E. E. King (1921)



Railway signaling in theory and practice by J. B. Latimer (1909)



Railway signaling; a comprehensive treatise on modern methods of railway signaling, covering principles of operation and types of apparatus; (1907)



Railway-signalling automatic; an introductory treatment of the purposes, equipment, and methods of automatic signalling and track-circuits for steam and electric railways by F. R. Wilson (1920)



Reference book of parts in connection with inter-locking and block signaling (1894)



Rescue the republic - the necessity and advantages of national ownership of railroads and telegraphs by T. V. Cator (1892)



Revised organization of the Transportation Department of the Northern Pacific Railroad (1882)



Rules and regulations for the government of employés of the operating department (1903)



Rules and regulations of the transportation department by Arizona Eastern Railroad Company (1907)



Rules for the government of the operating department by Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1919)



Scientific management and railroads; being part of a brief submitted to the Interstate commerce commission by L. D. Brandeis (1912)



Side-lights on management world systems railways by J. G. Panghorn (1901)



Student course in railroading by F. G. Athearn (1913)



Supervision of cars; practical and effective methods governing their care, use and maintenance. Supplement to The science of railways by M. M. Kirkman (1904)



The A B C of railroad signalling by W. H. Elliott (1909)



The arguments for and against train-crew legislation (1913)



The car builders' dictionary; an illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railway cars, their parts, attachments, and details of construction by F. E. Lister (1909)



The carman's helper by H. K. Christie (1920)



The first principles of railway signalling including an account of the legislation in the United Kingdom by C. Byles (1910)



The passenger car ventilation system of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by C. B. Dudley (1904)



The railway signal and permanent way engineer's pocket book by Locomotive Publishing Co. Ltd (1922)



The railway signal dictionary (1911)



Train lighting by electricity by J. F. L. (1914)



Train operation by signal indication by H. M. Sperry (1920)



Train rules, block signal rules, interlocking rules, signal indications and aspects, general regulations by Northern Pacific Railway Company (1919)



Transportation rules - Northern Pacific system of railroads in effect Sept. 1883, revised May, 1886 (1886)





Also included are three rare vintage railroad magazine collections:



“The Railroad Digest” (January 1901 – December 1901)

– 516 pages



“The Railway Master Mechanic” (January 1890 – December 1890)

- 448 pages



“The American Engineer and Railroad Journal” – 228 ISSUES!

(January 1893 – December 1911) – 1,000’s of pages!



An absolute must for anyone with an interest in railways, railroads, trains and locomotives – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!



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