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Issue	Contents
Pre-1970s
58A	VERMONT CENTRAL - CENTRAL VERMONT 2003 Reprint by the Central Vermont Railway Historical Society. The original 58A was published in August 1942 as an extra issue for sale to Members for $1.00 and Non-Members at $2.00. Since the VC-CV controlled the Rutland RR for a time, this road is covered also. See out-of-print 58A's description. This reprint also includes "Railroad Mania in Amherst" on the Amherst & Belchertown RR and "History of the Northern New York Railroad" from Bulletin 47. Also from Bulletin 53 is "The Rouses Point Bridge" and from Bulletin 46 "The Moira & Bombay Railroad". The reprint is on quality paper and photograph reproduction is adequate. R&LHS Members $18.00, Non-Members $27.00.
86	Reprint of May 1998 of the July 1952 single subject issue: The Story of the Florida RR's,1834 -1903, by George W. Pettengill Jr., with details on ACL, SBD & L&N predecessors, and additions and corrections from Bulletin No.88. On mat paper, there are 118 pages and 25 photographs. See OOP No.86 for more details. R&LHS Members $12.00, Non-Members $15.00
1970s
139	The Portland (Maine) Company (locomotive builder); Mt. Clare Station (Baltimore); List of Sources for Major Published Locomotive Rosters
141	Thomas H. Paul & Son (locomotive builder); Official Railroad Nicknames; Wooten and the Reading Shops; Locomotive Roster: The Panhandle (Pennsylvania Railroad)
1980s
142	Holmes Hinkley and the Boston Locomotive Works; Roster: Hinkley Locomotive Construction
144	New Haven Ten-wheelers (includes roster); Mississippi Southern Railroad; Louisiana & Arkansas Railway (includes steam locomotive roster)
149	Dundee-built Locomotives on Canada’s First Railways; Early Narrow Gauge Locomotives in the West; the Chicago Great Western Railroad
151	Electric Railway Freight; Locomotive Roster: Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railway.
INDEX	THE RAILROAD HISTORY INDEX compiled by Thomas T. Taber III. Covers issues 1-151. Arranged by Authors, RR's & RR History in the USA, Canadian Ry's, Ry's Worldwide covering 133 pages. Then the Book Reviews section is found on 22 more pages. John H. White,Jr. provides an introduction to both the R&LHS and this book.
154	Three Components of the Chicago & North Western (includes history and locomotive rosters):         The Omaha Road (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha)         The Minneapolis & St. Louis         The Chicago Great Western
157	“The Well Known Narrow Gauge Railway Champion”: Col. Edward Hulbert; Locomotive Roster: Mobile & Ohio Railroad
158	“Gerald M. Best: Autobiography of a Railfan”; Locomotive Rosters: Gulf Mobile & Northern Railroad (Steam), Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad (Diesel)
160	Early Railroad Empire Builders (1850-1873); “Crookedest Railroad in the World” - Who Says So?; Locomotive Roster: National Railway of Mexico (steam)
161	Overland Route; Working for the Santa Fe (1909-1911); Saga of the Southern Pacific’s Martinez-Benicia (California) Bridge; Locomotive Roster: Spokane International Railroad
1990s
163	Biography & Translation of Letters (1839) of Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner; Earnest Elmo Calkins and the Creation of “Phoebe Snow”; ICC Railroad Valuation Records; Spirit Lake, Iowa
165	The Railroad in American Literature; Traveling Detroit to Chicago in 1888; The Transportation Act of 1940; The B&O Presidency of Daniel Willard; Biography: Richard Eaton, Canadian Mechanical Engineer
166	Railroad Safety (1910-1939); Derailment of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian at Custer Creek (1938); Great Northern Railway’s Motor Buses; Oklahoma Central Railway; “Some Surprising Survivors” (Stations, Bridges, Etc.)
167	Rogers Locomotives: A Brief History and Construction List (136 pages) by Peter Moshein and Robert R. Rothfus. Steam Vs. Diesel Locomotives by Robert Aldag. Editorial: Railroad History --- What's the Object?
168	Virginia’s First Railroad: Falling Creek; Detroit & Pontiac Railroad; Alaska’s Copper River & Northwestern Railway
169	Santa Fe’s Reading Rooms; Passenger Service on the Chicago & North Western; Chicago Chapter’s First Excursion; Biography: Thatcher Perkins
170	Motive Power Struggle: Pennsylvania Railroad vs. General Motors; Boston’s South Terminal Station: Electric Traction History; Firing and Running New Haven Steam Locomotives (1926-1939; Frank P. Donovan’s Delmarva Branch Line Odyssey
171	Railroads in the American Context; Locomotive Safety (1900-1945); A Wartime Triangle Trip; Photo Essay: Destruction of New York’s Pennsylvania Station; Biography: Thomas T. Taber
172	Biography: Edward Budd (part 1); Blind Tires on Steam Locomotives; Technology and Law on the Dakota Frontier; California to Illinois by Train in 1937; Locomotive Roster: Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad
173	Biography: Edward Budd (part 2); Railways in the Netherlands (1830-1914); System and Shop Practices of the Baldwin Locomotive Works; Women Telegraphers
175	H. W. Pontin and His Rail Photo Service; Motor Trains of the German National Railways; Dr. Borst’s X-12: the Atomic Locomotive; Morristown & Erie Railroad in the 1940s; Interview: George Krambles; Locomotive Roster: New York, Ontario & Western Railway
176	Andre Chapelon and French Locomotives (20th century); Testing a New York Central “Mohawk”; Chicago Great Western Railroad and the John A. Cole Milling Co.; Great Northern Railway and Dryland Farming; Technological Revolution at Grand Central Terminal
177	Energy Conservation on Steam Railroads (1889-1943); Fish Cars in Nebraska; John Edgar Thompson on the Pennsylvania Railroad; Robert E. Woodruff; Boston & Albany Railroad Locomotive Renumbering (1912); Locomotive Roster: Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad
178	America’s Chapel Cars; Dan Paine: Milwaukee Road Engineer on the Iowa & Minnesota Division; Badnall’s Undulating Railway; New York Central Railroad’s Montreal Secondary
179	The Railroad as an Aesthetic Object; Images of the Pacific Electric; Immigrant Contract Labor on the Milwaukee Road; Tay Bridge; Biography: Ludwig Hamberger (German National Railways)
>>>	Note: More detailed descriptions of issues 181-185 may be seen in the Railroad History section of this website.
181	Toy Trains; Progress and Slavery on the South’s Railroads; Dummy Steam Locomotives; Railroads and Catenary; Liquidating the Rock Island; New Jersey & New York Railroad No. 10, “Woodridge”
2000s
SPL	Special single subject issue: The Diesel Revolution RAILROAD HISTORY Millennium Special. 160 pages by well known authors with 13 chapters with titles such as: Business Strategies and Diesel Development; Railroads and the War; Culture Clash: Diesel vs. Tradition; Covered Wagons and Geeps; Diesel Railcar: A Look Ahead. A true USA locomotive buffet.
183	“Race to Chicago” (railroad building across Michigan); “Century Gone” (railroading highlights in the 20 century); Semaphore Blades by Night; Sahara’s Lost Railroads; Photo Essay: Illinois Central Gulf Employees by Ben Halpern
184	History of Train Wrecks; German Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives in the US; Virginian Railway Mallets; Photo Essay: Pennsylvania Railroad by William Herman Rau; Preservation Topic: Buffalo’s Central Terminal Employees by Ben Halpern
185	Railroad Deregulation: Demise of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Abandoned Rail Corridors; “Boomer Tales” Freeman Hubbard and Railroad Fiction; Dining Car Menu Art; Bravery at the World Trade Center; Preservation Topic: Town of Pullman; Locomotive Roster: Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
>>>	Note: Illustrated summaries of issues 186 and later may be seen in the Railroad History section of this website.
186	Rails Across the Hudson: Getting across the barrier, then and now; On the Waterfront: New York Harbor railroading in the 1950s and 1960s; Hitler's Locomotives: Part 1; German Railroaders and the Holocaust; Strategic Short Line: All about South Carolina's Columbia, Newberry & Laurens.
187	Railroaders: Lives and Stories; Hitler's Locomotives: Part 2; American Variety: Comparing engine classes here and abroad; The amiable New York & Greenwood Lake.
188	Too Big to Fail?: The political and regulatory mindset that led to Penn Central; Forgetting St. Louis and Other Map Mischief: The oddities and deception of railroad mapmaking; David P. Morgan bio: Part 1; Overwhelmed with Good Fortune: Sir Henry Tyler vs. the Vanderbilts in a gilded age battle for Chicago.
189	Railroads and Slavery; Defeating Division 699: The 1916 railway strike in Washington, DC; Santa Fe's Poster Genius; Loss at Kinzua: History of Kinzua Viaduct; David P. Morgan bio Part Two.
190	The Curve: Horseshoe Curve exerts staying power as an engineering feat and train-watching paradise; Cuba and Railroads: Part 1: Main Lines, 1837-2003; O. Winston Link; Requiem for a Runaway: In search of the remains of a Mallet that disappeared off Rollins Pass in 1924.
191	History of the Dome Car; Cuba and Railroads: Part 2: Fifty Years Too Soon; Aftermath of an Ohio interurbans cutting of coal rates; Railroad Soldiers: Thumbnail history of U. S. Military Railways; The Bridge that Never Was: Japan's WWII Burma-Siam railway.
193	"Crescent City Bound"(New Orleans RRs); Lucius Beebe; Russian 2-10-2s; Steam in Indian Summer; Fighting Cars with Buses
194	"Railroading through Receivership" (Georgia & Florida); "Famous Long Ago" (forgotten RR history authors); Alco's Pioneer High Hoods; "Battle Over Coal" (Penn State coal traffic); Railroaders in the Great War; "Wild West Baldwins" (steam in Finland)
195	Canada's Silver Age (psgr services on CN, CPR & VIA 1945-2005, with maps). Equipping the Fleets (rolling stock used in previous article). In a Land of Few Roads (Hudson Bay service in northern Manitoba). Border Jumpers (covers USA/Canada psgr rail border crossing circa 1951). Singing Brakeman (Jimmie Rodgers). A Stroll Through Mount Clare Shops in 1872 (B&O in Baltimore). Flying The Flag (Pakistan 1993). Railroaders in Bronze and Stone (a sampling of USA monuments).
196	Submerged Ambitions (the Cairo, Illinois, story). Fast Trains and Faster (1890's golden era and streamliner revival). Speed Over a Century (how Amtrak compares). Fact or Fable (NYCS No.999). Giants and Dwarfs (Richard Kindig's Colorado & Wyoming photographs). Lumbering Mikes (McCloud River RR). Loggers and Short Lines (roster of 90-ton Baldwin Mikado-types). The Great American Railway of Asia (South Manchuria Ry, now in northeastern China). Hot Times on the High Iron (a boomer engineman on the internet).
197	Single subject issue: A Short History of American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era by John H. White,Jr., with 108 pages, profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs, many in color. Chapters are: Introduction, The American Locomotive Industry, A History of the Individual Firms, Men Behind the Machines, The Whyte System, American Locomotive Builders, Daily News, A Survivors' Gallery, and an Index. A ready USA steam reference book for the ages. Regular features bring this book up to 128 pages, plus the colorful wraps.
198	Railroad Corporate Cultures compares 1960's E-L management with that of the B&O. Beyer-Garratts of Zimbabwe in 1988, and still steaming in 2008. The Dining Car and Railroad China is nicely illustrated on a dozen pages. Midwest Metamorphosis quantifies declining psgr train service at the busiest stations. British Iron on American RR's looks at the role tariffs played. Artist of the Rail features Phil Hastings on 13 pages.
199	Electrification over the Sierra Nevada. Middleton examines the what if & why not? Bill Howes tells how the B&O maintained high diner standards despite escalating costs. Art in the Age of Steam is show and tell on 12 pages. The Lackawanna used radio in 1914 to battle a blizzard. Stourbridge Lion was the first locomotive steamed on rails in the Americas? Maybe. 27 years of research suggests maybe not. William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Campaign is the whistle-stop pioneer story. 35 pages of book reviews. 2008 R&LHS Awards. Memorials to Charles Smith, James Larson, David Sweetland & others.
200	The Winding Path to No.200 by J.Parker Lamb is a summation of R&LHS history. A Chronology of R&LHS and the Bulletin/Railroad History by Dan Cupper follows. Both articles accompanied by covers in color. Reaching 200 by Bill Middleton tells of trains that first achieved 200 KMH or 200 MPH. Lincoln for the Defense: Railroads, Steamboats and the Rock Island Bridge by David Pfeiffer. Amtrak's F40PH by Kevin Holland tells the entire story. Roll Call of 200s by Dan Cupper lists as many locos numbered 200 as could be found in North America, 303 of them, and includes photos of many. 19 pages of book reviews.
201	Poughkeepsie Bridge; "Not at all proper for women:" Black Female Railroaders; Artist of the Rail: Jack Delano (photography); Hunting Buffalo from the Train (Kansas Pacific Ry); A Golden Anniversary: Colorado RR Museum; The travels of the 4-2-0 Locomotive William Penn (1835-1897(?); The truth behind the Pride of Newcastle. 19 pages of book reviews. Obits:H.Arnold Wilder,Harold H. Carstens.

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