Eric s Railroad Car History Book Catalog

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1 Eric s Railroad Car History Book Catalog January 1, 2009 Eric s Railroad Car History Catalog Page 1

2 Ordering and Contact Information Payment can be by cash, check or money order. PayPal is also accepted. To use PayPal, either order using the shopping cart on my website or go to your account, click on the Send Money tab and use my address as shown below to direct the payment to me. I can t accept credit cards for payment at this time. street address: Eric A. Neubauer 4998 Abbey Rd. Coplay, PA address: contact@ericsrailroadcarhistory.com website address: or (click link to Eric s Railroad Car History) Prices for books on CD include first class postage worldwide. Prices for print books include shipping by media mail within the United States. For addresses outside the U.S. or faster shipment, please contact me for details. Orders are normally shipped within several days of receipt. Terms of Purchase You are purchasing the right to use the e-book PDF file which will be supplied to you on a CD. You are free to copy the file into any computers you use, and you may print out any pages you wish provided copies are not distributed to others in either electronic or paper format, or placed where they can be downloaded by others. If an electronic book you purchase from me is updated in the future, you will be able to get an upgrade at a significant discount. Catalog Instructions Book are listed in alphabetical order. Keywords found on the book marks panel can be used to help find specific subject matter you are interested in. Eric s Railroad Car History Catalog Page 2

3 Book List A History of the Center Flow (2007) is an encyclopedic guide with 1,163 pages, hundreds of photographs, diagrams, and scale drawings. Center Flow cars were built by American Car & Foundry and American Railcar Industries from 1961 to the present, and include about one in fifteen North American freight cars currently in service. All covered, open-top, Pressureaide, and Through Sill models are detailed. $40 ACF Center Flow CF4600 (printed book, 1994) is an illustrated guide to the CF4600 covered hopper design. It has 36 pages, 23 photographs, and 9 diagrams. Differences in construction, roof hatches, running boards, etc. are discussed in depth. Detailed rosters list the cars as they were built and relettered. $20 The Bethlehem Plant, Fall of 1995 (2007) is primarily a collection of aerial photographs taken of the Bethlehem plant taken just before the last blast furnace shut down. The low altitude photographs were taken by the author and are not available anywhere else. Several maps, ground level photographs, and a brief history of the site round out the book which consists of 46 tabloid size pages. $25 Carbon Black Cars (printed book, 1990) is still the definitive work on carbon black and fumed silica cars. The book includes rosters, 15 scale diagrams and 48 photos of designs built between 1933 and The majority were built by American Car & Foundry and Thrall, but cars built by Darby Car, Magor, National Steel Car, Pressed Steel Car, and Procor were also represented. $30 Celtran, Inc. (2008) explores the entire roster of this North American subsidiary of Celanese, the largest producer of acetyl products. Their fleet once included over 3,000 tank and covered hopper cars. Many of the tank cars are unusual designs with aluminum or stainless steel tanks. A significant number had six-wheeled trucks. $25 Center Beam Cars (2007) is an amply illustrated roster of over 43,000 center beam cars built since their introduction in The book has 600 pages and 543 photographs. Reletterings and renumberings are fully covered. While many of the photographs were taken more recently, vintage shots from the late 1980s show some rare cars including ones lettered for Diamond B Lumber, Pend Orielle, Treesource and FCWR. $25 Evans Products Company Freight Cars (2003) is an overview of the Evans Products family of companies and their involvement with freight cars. The better known subsidiaries were U.S. Railway Equipment and Southern Iron & Equipment. The story of this innovative company is told in 52 pages and 59 photographs. $15 Evans Products Company Freight Car Roster Notes (2004) is a detailed listing of freight cars built, rebuilt and leased by Evans Products and subsidiaries. The complicated construction and leasing data fills 184 pages. Evans was a pioneer in "sale-lease back" arrangements and an important rebuilder in the 1960s and 1970s.They also built over 37,000 new cars. $25 Evans Products Builders Photographs (2006) reproduces most of the James A. Kinkaid collection. The book contains 548 official photographs of cars Evans built, rebuilt or repainted in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Most are in color. Evans favored bright colors and decorative lettering, and their cars have become favorites of rail fans and modelers. $25 Eric s Railroad Car History Catalog Page 3

4 Gunderson and FMC Railcar Production through 1984 (2009) is an illustrated production list of ALL railcars built at Gunderson s Portland plant and FMC s Charleton plant between 1958 and Dispositions follow each order. There are over 480 pages and 680 photos. A digital facsimile of FMC Boxcars Since 1972/ Freight Cars Journal Monograph #1 is also included. $25 Lehigh & New England Railroad Freight Car Diagram Book (printed book, 1993) includes 56 pages of rosters, photographs and diagrams. Charts show yearly quantities in service. Lists of passenger and maintenance of way equipment are included. This railroad which served the anthracite coal and portland cement regions of Pennsylvania was dismantled in $20 National Railway Utilization Corporation (2006) explores the complexities of the acquisition and liquidation of the NRUC fleet of box cars. Their fleet of distinctive, light blue cars began to spread across North America in While they were forced to sell off most of their cars during the 1980s, many were only relettered and remained in their original colors. $25 Norfolk Southern Coal Gons 2005 (2005) is a contemporary pictorial roster of the Norfolk Southern coal gondola fleet. Gray Top Gons make up most of the fleet. While this design is well known, the roster had never been published in full detail before this book. All cars with NS and CR reporting marks are included in the 54 pages and 51 photographs which make up this book. $15 Northampton & Bath Freight Cars (printed book, 1994) is a pictorial roster of this U.S. Steel subsidiary in the Pennsylvania cement belt. Includes detailed drawings of their 1923 NYC design box cars and a map of the railroad. Most of the route is now a rail trail, but a small part remains as an industrial line in Northampton. $15 Our Alaska Trip (157 pages, 2007) is a collection of photographs from our trip. A small amount of railroad material includes the Hurricane Turn out of Talkeetna, scenes from Nenana and the former Copper River & Northwestern route from Chitina to Kennecott. Most of the 157 page book covers the often spectacular scenery, wild animals, wildflowers and sealife. Available as a free add-on to any order on request. ORER January 1899 is a facsimile of the Equipment Register in a single PDF document. It has a extensive set of bookmark hyperlinks for easy navigation. The efficient navigation and completeness of the document make it superior to any similar e-books. $15 Pennsylvania Power & Light Coal Cars (2006) is an illustrated roster of PPLX cars and also includes a variety of HELM and other non-pplx cars used in PP&L trains. Although the cars appeared rather bland at first glance, a surprising number of oddities came to light while writing the book. PP&L was the first electric utility to have their own fleet of cars. $15 Philadelphia & Reading Freight Cars: 19th Century (printed book, 1994) includes 94 pages of rosters, photographs, diagrams and drawings. This is the only comprehensive work available on Reading cars from this early time when the P&R was one of the biggest corporations, and for a while even the largest corporation in the world. $25 Philadelphia & Reading Freight Cars: 1900 to 1914 (printed book, 1996) includes 120 pages of rosters, photographs, diagrams and drawings. It includes exquisite scale drawings of 19 different freight cars done especially for this book. The designs include several early steel and steel underframe cars built by Pressed Steel Car. $30 Eric s Railroad Car History Catalog Page 4

5 Pullman-Standard Freight Car Production Including Predecessors (2002) is a detailed, 164-page listing of about 10,000 freight car orders from the 19th and 20th centuries. Pullman-Standard was the largest freight car builder from about 1940 to One predecessor, Standard Steel Car, was an important pioneer in steel car construction and Pressed Steel Car s main rival. $20 Railbox 2006 (2006) is a complete, 163-page, pictorial roster of the Railbox fleet since The bright yellow box cars with black doors quickly became popular among rail fans. The travels of one car in particular appeared in rail fan literature. The novelty wore off after several years, but Railbox kept adding more cars through In 1983, a weak economy forced the distribution of about a quarter of the cars to the railroads which made up Railbox. Railbox started purchasing new cars again in $20 Southern Railway Car Roster (2006) includes an illustrated roster of cars used from 1982 to 1991 and a guide to Norfolk Southern classification of Southern cars. This book includes 507 pages and 466 photographs. Cars with both traditional and transitional lettering arrangements are shown. $20 Southern Railway Car Roster/Southern to Norfolk Southern Renumbering (2006) covers the period from 1991 to present. The 96-page book has 82 photographs of former Southern cars relettered or repainted with NS initials, and includes a renumbering table. $15 Train Watcher s Primer (2008) is a beginners guide to the train watching hobby. It also includes information of interest to experienced rail fans. It describes the reasons why people are attracted to train watching and all the associated activities. Rail fans will find this a good book to lend to friends and relatives. $25 Triple Crown Services 2006 (2006) is a pictorial roster of the Triple Crown RoadRailer fleet, including both highway trailers and rail bogies. The RoadRailer has significantly lower fuel consumption than any other bi-modal, rail-highway system in regular use. Triple Crown is the most successful operator of RoadRailers which are built by Wabash National. Triple Crown is a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern. The book includes 137 pages and 170 photographs. $20 Eric s Railroad Car History Catalog Page 5