Delaware & Hudson Cabooses

by Rudy Garbely

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To be released late July 2023

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The second book from author Rudy Garbely covering the Delaware & Hudson, this title is the definitive guide to the railroad’s cabooses from the 1950s through the 1990s. It includes all 15 classes of D&H diesel-era cabooses, plus the cabooses of D&H subsidiaries Greenwich & Johnsonville and Napierville Junction. The book is complete with the histories of each class, specifications and mechanical data, and firsthand stories from D&H employees that worked on them. This material is supplemented with over 300 photos, several original D&H car diagrams, and a detailed roster.

192 pages | 8.5”x11” limited edition hardcover

First of Its Kind – The Buffalo Creek Railroad, Volume 1: 1868 to 1950

by Stephan M. Koenig and Ronald R. Dukarm

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To be released late July 2023

In 1868, the Buffalo Creek Railroad was incorporated as the first terminal railroad in the United States. Designed to tap into the growing grain milling business and Lake Erie commercial traffic, this five-mile railroad, concentrated entirely in Buffalo, New York, became the busiest terminal railroad of its size by the early 20th century. Even though the railroad’s service became synonymous with Buffalo’s grain milling and flour industry, it also served a significant amount of the chemical and oil business in the area. While its operations were locally confined, the Buffalo Creek was widely known in the railroading community by its vast fleet of 40-foot boxcars, used to transport Buffalo’s grain products to locations as far away as Mexico City and Vancouver. This book covers the railroad’s inception through the end of its steam era and into the early diesel era.

80 pages | 8.5”x11” softcover

Just a Short Line – The Story of the Rahway Valley Railroad, Volume III: Facilities, Industries, & Operations

by Richard J. King and Walter E. Switz with Thomas P. Piccirillo, MMR

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(PREORDERS DUE BY MAY 29, 2023)

To be released early September 2023

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The third in a series of titles chronicling the little Rahway Valley Railroad in northern New Jersey, this book covers the railroad’s facilities, the industries it served, and how it operated its trains over the course of its ninety-five years. With only 11.8 miles of track, the RV’s facilities - bridges, stations, grade crossings, and more - were archaic and home-spun. The railroad served a wide variety of small- to medium-sized industries which shipped a vast array of commodities to and from all over the country. Train crews employed unique methods to operate freight, passenger, and excursion trains over this single-track streak of rust. This is all covered and thoroughly illustrated with photographs, scale drawings, and track maps. With 400 pages, this extensive spiral-bound volume is an incredibly detailed guide to this little railroad.

400 pages | 8.5”x11” limited edition spiral-bound softcover

Delaware & Hudson Steam Locomotives, 1828-1953

by Christopher A. Shepherd

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To be released mid-October 2023

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The famous run of the Stourbridge Lion in Honesdale, Pennsylvania on August 8, 1829 marked the first operation of a steam locomotive in North America. Its operator and owner, the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, was only six years old at the time, but the beginning of steam railroading in the United States was just one of the D&H's lasting contributions to the railroad industry. Over the next 124 years, the D&H would construct its own steam locomotives, purchase some of the largest steam locomotives ever used on the east coast, and experiment with some of the most unique and innovative steam locomotive designs ever seen on American rails (including those with European-style headlights!). This book is laden with photos, diagrams, specifications, and roster information for every one of the D&H's steam locomotives between 1828 and 1953 - the full length of the D&H's steam era. Written by Chris Shepherd, the vice president of the Bridge Line Historical Society, this is the definitive research book regarding some of the finest machines to ever roll on rails in the United States.

450+ pages | 11”x8.5” limited edition hardcover

New York, Susquehanna & Western, Volume 3: Smiths Mills to Hainesburg Jct.

by Rudy Garbely

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To be released mid-October 2023

The third in a series of titles covering the Susquehanna from the 1940s through 1990s, this book features over 150 previously unpublished black & white and color photos covering the railroad’s west end. Coverage includes both freight and passenger operations from the railroad’s earliest diesel operations through its rebirth in the 1980s as a regional carrier. This book includes rare photographic coverage of the NYS&W main line from Butler to Sparta (out of service in 1971 and reactivated in 1986), the western end of the main line from Sparta to Hainesburg (abandoned in 1962), and the Hanford Branch from Beaver Lake to Hanford (abandoned in 1957).

~80 pages | 8.5”x11” softcover