[PRCo] Re: Rails to Pittsburgh

[Carl Zager]

This thread prompted me to head to my bookshelves. Don't know whether any
of this is of interest, but I had nothing to do last night <grin>.

Books:
+ Rails to Pittsburgh, W.A. Feibelman, Superior (Bonanza), 1979, $15.95
+ Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Harold A. McLean, Golden West, 1980,
  $29.95
+ Pittsburgh Trolley Pictorial, PRMA, 1971
+ Touring Pittsburgh by Trolley, Harold A. Smith, Quadrant, 1992
+ The Street Railways of Pittsburgh, Tom E. Parkinson, LRTL and PRMA, 1976
+ Pennsylvania Trolleys, v III, The Pittsburgh Region, William D. Volkmer,
  Morning Sun Books, 1999, $54.95
+ Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City, Stefan Lorant, Authors
  Edition, 3rd Ed., 1980.

Magazine Articles:
+ Pittsburgh Has 'Em Too, Railway Quarterly (no date on my copies).
+ Fabulous Fineview, Traction & Models, Mar 1966.
+ Pittsburgh's T System [and]
+ Pittsburgh's PCC Cars
	John A. Bittner, Model Railroader, July 1992.
+ Pittsburgh: Stronger Than Steel, National Geographic, Dec 1991.

Magazines w/Pittsburgh-West Penn stuff:
+ Traction & Models
	Mar 66	Oct 66	Jul 68	Apr 69	Apr 70
	Jun 71	Aug 72	Feb 76	Jun 76	Aug 76
	Jan 81

Traction/Trolley Books/Articles (not Pittsburgh):
+ Traction Guidebook for Model Railroaders, Mike Schefer, Kalmbach, 1974.
+ Brandywine Transit Company, Walter R. Olsen, Model Railroader,
	May 75	Jul 75	Sep 75	Nov 75
	Jan 76	Mar 76	May 76	Aug 76	Sep 76	Oct 76
	Jan 77	Feb 77	Jul 77
	Feb 78	May 78		(Philadelphia).
+ Start Modeling Traction, Harvey J. Simon, Model Railriader,
	Oct 99	Nov 99	Dec 99 Jan 00	Feb 00	Mar 00 (Boston).
+ Consider Electrification, Hal Reigger, Model Railroader, Sep 79.
+ Overhead Wire for Pole Trolleys, Richard Orr, Model Railroader, Mar 75.

Except for recent articles in the major publications, finding any of these
would probably necessitate many swap meets, train shows, ads in the
magazines, etc.

There, I've wasted bandwidth <grin>.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Donald Galt wrote:
> On 13 Jun 01, at 9:24, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> > Especially in view of its editorial content!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > "Rails to Pittsburgh" is not a trolley book, but it has many
> > railroad photos of locales that we often talk about on this
> > list.  I refer to it regularly.  It has only a few trolley
> > photos.  $70 seems a bit high for this book.
>
> Editorial content. Uh-huh.
>
> The egregiously misnamed Superior Publishing, located in my
> home town, bore a lot of resemblence to a vanity publisher. Most of
> its titles - maritime and rail, mostly local or at least Western - were
> pretty much personal scrap books. the books might contain text if
> the authors/collectors chose to write it, but were innocent of any
> hint of editorial intervention.
>
> That said, they were printed on high-quality paper (I'm not referring
> here to the bargain reprints by Bonanza) and photographic
> reproduction was, for the era, pretty good. And Superior's volumes
> contained material which otherwise might never have been seen. I
> don't reckon you'll find anything to replace "Rails to Pittsburgh."
>
> But, as Bob says, it is not a trolley book.
>
> Don Galt
> Seattle, WA
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 Carl Zager						KB9RVB
 czager at bloomington.in.us         http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager