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In the News (Tue 8 Dec 09)

  
  O.S. Nock
There is, of course, a good deal of yellow in the light from an ordinary oil-burning signal lamp, and many railways sought to counteract this by using a strong blue-green glass in order to display an orthodox bright-green light.
Two of the author's watercolours are unusual: one is of the main "heraldic" devices for Scottish railway companies which forms the frontispiece and the other is of the ex-North British paddle-steamer Waverley on the Lochgoilhead and Arrochar service.
Many railway books present a picture of the past, but Scottish Railways is relatively unusual in that its past is now long departed, and much of the then present, like the sheep and fish traffic, has also disappeared.
www.steamindex.com /library/nock.htm   (3399 words)

  
 Golden Age of Railroading - World
World-wide Thirty-inch Railways: List of railways world-wide with a gauge of thirty inches, or the closely associated gauges of 750mm and 760mm.
Railways in Belgium: A history of all standard gauge lines in Belgium.
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway: Details of the UK railway, including a comprehensive bibliography, details of the locomotive engineers, and liveries used.
www.cwrr.com /nmra/goldw.html   (778 words)

  
 2005 Nominations (The Canadian Railway Hall of Fame)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Since this article was written some 18 years ago, Ken has continued to dedicate his railway career to the design, development, and implementation of some of the most innovative, cost efficient, and highly productive material handling machinery and equipment for the railway industry.
Her father, Alexander Cumming, joined the Grand Trunk Pacific in 1911 in Portage La Prairie, MB on the BandB crew (bridge and building) retiring about 1940; brother William (Bill) was a boilermaker for about 35 years and ahter brother Alex and Tom worked for the ’road for shorter periods of time.
Almost every Railway Employee at one or time or another was stationed in Capreol during their career and everyone who lived here has a story related to the railway.
railfame.ca /2005/nomination   (3679 words)

  
 Manuscript Guide "W-Z", Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Writes that it is hard to get "french leave" because there are patrols on every road around the camp, and that many have deserted from his company due to the lack of whiskey.
Surveyor for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company in 1912 from Albemarle, North Carolina, who compiled two photograph albums of photographs taken while surveying property, for the railroad, in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Studied at the University of Southern California (B. Arch., 1947), U.C. Berkeley, and L'Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris; established her own architecture firm in 1967.
spec.lib.vt.edu /specgen/msguide/mgwxyz.htm   (4686 words)

  
 Karen's Books - New Arrivals
With a mainline that originated in the industrial port city of Toledo, Ohio, the Ann Arbor Railroad stretched northwest in a diagonal line across the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to reach Frankfort and adjacent Elberta, where its tracks terminated on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Analyzing the origins, growth, and dismantling of the Iowa Central Railway, which crossed the state from Ackley to Zearing and Mason City to Marshalltown, the author examines how this unremarkable railway was an example of the life cycle of the American railroad industry.
Lawrence A. Stuckey’s Canadian & U.S. Railway Photography, 1935-1957 Author Donald Bain #18593 $25.00 Only $23.95 “Stuck” was one of the best known railway photographers in the steam era and this book traces his railroad photographic career from his first shots until he gave up in 1957 as steam disappeared.
www.karensbooks.com /cgi-bin/shop/karenscart.cgi?func=newArrivals   (8093 words)

  
 Canada Southern Railway Bibliography - Books
Many of these references are to a Canada Southern owner or connecting railroad, but only items directly related to the Canada Southern or equipment operated on it will be included.
The Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio in Southern Ontario" -->
The Howard section refers to the Southern Railway once but may be referring to another not the CS.
home.eol.ca /~ianmc/ian/cs/csbiblio/books.htm   (2841 words)

  
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Atlantic and Yadkin Railway - History of a NC short line
Norfolk Southern's Georgia Division and CSX's Manchester Subdivision
Cass Scenic Railroad in Cass, WV Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, FL South Florida Railway Museum in Deerfield Beach, FL Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA back to top
smrf.railfan.net /SMRF/smrf_links/links.htm   (284 words)

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