Books On B&O History

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10002	B&O Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Great book for the modeler, or anyone who is interested in the various colors used on B&O equipment over the years.	49.95	Item Total:
10007	Impossible Challenge II by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. This is a must have book for anyone who wants to read about the development of the B&O from Baltimore to Washington and Harpers Ferry. This 431 page book is just full of great photos not found elsewhere. Like the others of this great saga (East End, and West End), the photos contain route sketches, old shots of trains running through communities along the way, steam engines, and diesels all the way into the Chessie era. Most photographs are black and white, with a few color shots taken during the last years of the B&O	75.00	Item Total:
10013	Cabooses of the B&O Railroad, by Bob Hubler. 1994. 176 pages. Thorough history, rosters and diagrams. A fully comprehensive and authoritative book on B&O cabooses. Published by this Society. Tons of B&W & Color Photos. Hardback.	39.00	Item Total:
10014	East End - B&O’s Neck of the Bottle by Jeffrey R. Hollis and Charles S. Roberts. This book is just loaded with photographs about the B&O between Harpers Ferry and Cumberland. This 224 page book covers the movement of the B&O westward and shows many early sketches and survey routes that B&O used to determine the route they would take. The book is also full of photographs from early, mid, and late steam, as well as diesels. Most photos are black and white. A few are color.	70.00	Item Total:
10016	"Along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, From Cumberland to Uniontown" by Marci McGuiness, 1998, 128 pages.	19.99	ÂÂ Item Total: ÂÂ ÂÂ
10019	Sand Patch: Clash of Titans. One of the all-time books about mountain running	70.00	Item Total:
10020	Baltimore and Ohio Trackside with Willis A. McCaleb. Written by Bruce K. Dicken and James M. Semon. This over 100 page all color book shows big time steam on the B&O during the 1950s. If you enjoy looking at color B&O steam operations, you'll love this book.	49.95	Item Total:
10021	Trackside along the B&O 1957-1958 with Edward P. Griffith. Written by Walter A. Appel. This is another of the great trackside books, this time concentrating on diesel operations. This over 100 page all color book shows main line diesel operations throughout the B&O system.	54.95	Item Total:
10023	American Locomotive Builders by John H. White. 112 pages, many illustrations, 1982. A short history of the many builders of steam locos. Well over a hundred makers are listed. Softback.	6.00	Item Total:
10025	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Diesel Locomotive Roster Third Edition by James Mischke. Latest edition. Older Second edition now for sale under stock # 10108. This is a "must have" booklet that will provide comprehensive information on each of the diesels that operated on the B&O. For example, there is a diesel locomotive roster that provides a brief history on each engine, when it was built, it's original engine number, it's succeeding numbers, when it was disposed of, and provides engine assignments for March, 1950; October, 1956; January, 1958; and January, 1959. Note - photo for older edition is being used until the photo for the current revised edition is received. If you order under this stock number (10025), your order will be held until the new item is available for sale. We should have the new edition by the end of the summer	49.95	Item Total:
10030	B&O Steam Finale, Volume Two, by Deanne Mellander and Bob Kaplan. Color pics of B&O steam by legendary photographer Bill Price. Simple great photo's. They ran an extra thousand of Volume Two, which is why it's available today and Volume One is long out of print	24.00	Item Total:
10039	Baltimore and Ohio Steam in Color by David T. Mainey. This is another of the great books on B&O steam that is just full of 1950s era big time steam operations.	54.95	Item Total:
10043	Just Call Me Hays, by Hays T. Watkins. B&O's last president, he combined acuity for numbers with astute, down-home management, resulting in one of the more successful careers in railroading a president of the B&O, Chessie and CSX, ever had. Readers will gain an appreciation of shrewd, modern corporate management.	20.00	Item Total:
10044	C&O and B&O Cabooses - Display and Private Owner Cars, VOL ONE, by Dwight Jones. Has 230 b&w photographs of 200 B&O or C&O cabooses, where they now sit, as they are now painted, in 25 states and Canada. See cabooses in museums, backyards, on short lines and tourist lines. Some restored to accurate paint and lettering, some with unique paint. Arranged by class and series, with a section on moving cabooses by truck. 80 pages, color covers. Softbound.	15.95	Item Total:
10053	NY Harbor RRs in Color, Vol 2, by Thomas Flagg. Morning Sun Books. Hardback, 128 pages. RRs serving New York City operated fleets of ferries, tugs & barges, giving New York a water belt line to connect terminals with piers. Marine operations & facilities of B&O, CNJ, DL&W, EL, LV, LIRR, NYC, NH, PRR and Brooklyn Terminal RRs vividly illustrated and explained by an expert. Discounted from $60	50.00	Item Total:
10054	"Cabooses - Display and Private Owner Cars, Volume II", by Dwight Jones. S/C, 80 pgs, B/W. Continues from Vol I with more cabs and more cases of moving a caboose	16.95	Item Total:
10056	Baltimore and Ohio in Color - Volume 1, by David T. Mainey	59.95	Item Total:
10058	"E. Francis Baldwin - Architect" by Carlo Avery. Baldwin played a significant role in the architectural development, history and heritage of the city of Baltimore, and the B&O Railroad. This publication contains the most complete accounting of the work of Baldwin ever assembled. It will be of interest to architectural historians, students of local history of Maryland and Baltimore, and B&O railroad enthusiasts	22.95	Item Total:
10059	Royal Blue Line: The Classic B&O Train Between Washington and New York, by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 8½ x 11 paperback, 200 pgs, 200 halftone photo’s, 25 line drawings and 6-page color insert. Read the 70-year history of the B&O's showcase service, detailing creation of the "Royal Blue" image, the designs of equipment and services appropriate to this image, B&O's distinctive marketing campaigns, and its stubborn corporate pride in the line. Fully illustrated with photo’s, ads, menus, maps and timetables, vividly recalling America's most regal railway journey	25.00	Item Total:
10061	"Railroad Cyclopedia #12" by Pat Wider. Contains a great article on the B&O Scales Test n Tool Cars	24.95	Item Total:
10062	Railroads of the Ohio Valley, 1968-1990s, Book 4, Pittsburgh to Parkersburg, by Willard A. Harvey Jr. Coverage of B&O, B&O/C&O, and CSX between Pittsburgh & Parkersburg from 1968-99. Softcover, 96 pages, color covers, 16 page color section. New photo’s, no rehash of old stuff. Complements Book 1 (1947-60 not in print)	23.00	Item Total:
10065	'Trackside Maryland From Railyard to Mainline' by Gallagher & Kelly	29.95	Item Total:
10066	"Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh In Color Volume 1 New York." BR&P, built to haul coal,ore and oil between its namesake cities, was a progressive well-loved railroad. Follow its progress in color from its days as B&O step-child to its present day operation by the B&P and others. See stock number 10084 below for Volume 2	59.95	Item Total:
10067	"Cabooses - Display and Private Owner Cars Volume III", by Dwight Jones. Continuing the series , including more caboose moves	17.95	Item Total:
10076	"Steam Locomotives of the B&O - An All Time Roster" produced in 1992 by William Edson and published by McClain Printing Company of Parson, WVa. This book is a comprehensive listing of all of the B&O locomotives and includes information by class, built date, and provides some history. The book is over 200 pages, with 16 pages of photographs.	25.00	Item Total:
10078	"Old Maud – A Life & Times" by Gregory Ames. Here are some excerpts provided by the author. In the varied and interesting history of American motive power, few stories are as gripping as Old Maud’s, North America’s first Mallet locomotive. Old Maud, as a technological innovation, became a subject of intense rivalry between two giants of American industry – ALCO and the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The book contains not only the biography of Old Maud, but also the socioeconomic environment of the turn of the century that promoted the locomotive’s fame and its affectionate nickname. The B&O’s No. 2400 was talked about and written about perhaps more than any locomotive before or since.	59.95	Item Total:
10079	“B&O Diesel Locomotives, Vol 1 – Switchers and Road Switchers” by Liljestrand and Sweetland. Those of you who have attended our conventions and many of the Timonium shows may remember Bob Liljestrand who was present selling his photos. Few knew that he also was taking groups of those photos and was producing engine class specific books. This offering is the first of a series of books containing B&O photos on diesels, and deals with general switchers and road switchers. The book has been evaluated by Society experts for accuracy and manuscript, and was thought the book to be a worthwhile product and an inexpensive way to stock up on 70 B&O diesel photos that, in addition to the photo, includes some information on the diesel shown in the photo. The book is 48 pages	20.00	Item Total:
10080	"Trackside Around West Virginia, 1963-1968" with Bob Withers. This is a superb Morning Sun book for B&O fans, if only for the photos which are great. ISBN 1-58248-192-X	59.95	Item Total:
10081	"Trackside Around Louisville (West) 1947-1958 with Jack Fravert" by Castner, Campbell, Buccola, and Tipton. ISBN 1-58248-186-5 This is another great Morning Sun book for B&O fans, especially if you like steam. There are lots of steam and early first generation diesel.	59.95	Item Total:
10084	Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway (BR&P) In Color, Volume 2: Pennsylvania-Middle Division by Mike Zollitsch. Covers the BR&P line in pictures from Salamanca to DuBois. ISBN 1-58248-210-1. See stock number 10066 above for Volume 1	59.95	Item Total:
10085	"Trackside in the Middle Atlantic States, 1946-59", by Kevin Holland and Robert Yanosey. Coverage in this book includes: B&O, Capital Transit; C&O; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; East Broad Top; Erie; Jersey Central Lines; Lehigh & New England; Maryland & Pennsylvania; New York Central; Norfolk & Western; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines; Reading Company; and Virginian. ISBN # 1-58248-203-9	59.95	Item Total:
10086	"Trackside Around Youngstown, 1962-1982," by Stephen M. Timko. Covers in pictorial form the railroads operating in and around Youngstown, Ohio. Railroads included are the Youngstown and Northern, the Erie Lackawanna, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Penn Central, Conrail, Baltimore & Ohio, Youngstown and Southern, Youngstown & Austintown, and the Republic Steel Corporation. ISBN 1-58248-199-7	59.95	Item Total:
10087	"Baltimore and Ohio's Capitol Limited and National Limited." MBI Publishing. In 1923 the Baltimore & Ohio’s Capitol Limited started its travels between Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Two years later the B&O’s National Limited linked the nation’s capital to St. Louis. Almost at once the two lines became household names, famous for the outstanding service and cuisine offered in their Pullman sleepers and renowned dining cars. This authoritative, illustrated history takes readers back to the B&O’s glory years, with a wealth of images, route information, details of the trains’ passenger motive power, and the inside story on how the frugal railroad streamlined its equipment with innovative and aesthetically striking results. The book is hard copy, 8.5 x 11, 160 pages, 100 color & 110 b/w photos	36.95	Item Total:
10088	"Coal Cars: The First Three Hundred Years" by Martin Robert Karig III	75.00	Item Total:
10089	"Baltimore and Ohio's Magnificent 2-8-8-4 EM-1 Articulated Locomotive" by Dixon and Withers. Softbound. 72 pages. B&W photo essay with detailed captions and some maps. This is the story of B&O's last steam locomotive class, the fabulous EM-1 2-8-8-4 simple articulated, which the road bought during WW II. Although B&O wanted diesels, wartime restrictions prevented it from ordering any and the EM-1's were built instead. They handled the last years of war traffic and served ten more years, hauling fast freights, coal trains, and even some passenger runs over the heaviest grades. This book documents their life in photos, drawings, and maps, as well as mechanical and operational information	23.95	Item Total:
10090	"Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia." Images of Rail Series, by Bob Withers. In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing. Thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most imortantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachain communities	19.99	Item Total:
10092	"Baltimore and Ohio's Cincinnatian", by Tom Dixon. About one of the many new passenger trains introduced after World War II when there was still rail passenger business. The Cincinnatian was a highly-advertised, 5-coach train powered by a streamlined Pacific. It embodied the high hopes that the railroads would retain the passenger business in the face of the highway and airline competion. Mostly pictures with maps, charts, timetables, and advertisements. Softbound, 80 pages	20.95	Item Total:
10093	"The West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad, the B&O's Road to the Hardwoods", by Alan Clarke. This book describes the contruction of numerous railroads in WV in the area of and southwest of Grafton. Many of these railroads were constructed to gain access to hardwood forests. This book is a fine companion to the Coal and Coke Railway book by the same author	29.95	Item Total:
10094	"Railroad Cyclopedia #17 - U.S.R.A. 50-ton Single-Sheathed Box Cars and Steel Rebuilts (51 pages)" by Pat Wider. Also articles on General American Trans-Flo Hoppers and GATC Airslide Covered Hopper Cars	27.95	Item Total:
10095	"Trackside in the Rust Belt, 1957-77, with Cal Banse", by Stephen M. Timko. Erie RR operator Cal Banse took his camera to work and on excursions in eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the steel and coal country. Cal was photographing the railroad scene from the end of steam to the introduction of second generation diesels in a territory known for its heavy industry. A Morning Sun book with 22 pages on the B&O. Can you say EM-1 or Foxburg Bridge?	59.95	Item Total:
10097	"Baltimore & Ohio Railroad", by Reynolds and Oroszi. Expanded 160 page hardcover reissue of the 2000 release, with an all-new collection of more than 150 photos and illustrations covering the entire history of the railroad. This book follows the evolution of the B&O from its infancy to its 1987 amalgamation into the vast CSX Transportation network. Includes discussion of the B&O's genesis, its motive power, passenger era, and growth despite adverse conditions	37.00	Item Total:
10098	"Trackside around Eastern Ohio 1965-1995 with Dave McKay" by Stephen Timko. Another Morning Sun pictorial covering a geographic area including 23 color pages of B&O territory Trackside photography captures the N&W, PRR, PC, ConRail, B&O, EL and NYC and many other shortlines, terminal carriers, steel companies and industrials. Photograph subjects include locations along the B&O with one B&O steam, several cab units, and later diesels for the remainder. WM, Chessie, and CSX units are shown, too	59.95	Item Total:
10100	"Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon, Jr", biography; B&O president (the last) in the 60's until the C&O merger. He was responsible for B&O innovations and the sunburst scheme	24.95	Item Total:
10101	"Railroad Cites: Jersey City, NJ" by Liljestrand & Sweetland. Photo story of the facilities of multiple railroads in the city, including the B&O	20.00	Item Total:
10102	"Baltimore & Ohio Facilities In Color Volume 1: Eastern Region" by Bob Withers. Stations, towers, shops, roundhouses, and dozens of other structures (many with trains) are examined by B&O authority Bob Withers. This is the first in a three volume examination of the elegant B&O	59.95	ÂÂ Item Total: ÂÂ ÂÂ
10103	"Trackside Around Western Ohio 1965-1995 with Dave McKay" by Steve M. Timko. Re-visit the PC, B&O, N&W, C&O, EL, CR and several smaller roads like D&TSL, Toledo Terminal and Muskingum Electric. A follow-on to the Eastern Ohio book (stock # 10102) with just a few pages on the B&O	59.95	Item Total:
10104	"Railway Prototype Cyclopedia, Vol 18, A.R.A 1923-29 Design 40' Inside-Length 40- and 50-ton Box Cars". The 112 page article by Patrick C. Wider is the entire issue for this volume. This car was the M-26 on the B&O	27.95	Item Total:
10105	"Sites Insight"; first person recollections about working on the B&O, a compilation by Mel Trimble of his "Sites Insight" articles from the Retired Administrators of the B&O (RABO) magazine. 134 pages; early stock is signed by the author	25.00	Item Total:
10106	"Trackside in the Virginias 1954-1969 with Wayne Sherwin" by William R. Sparkmon. The railroads of Virginia and West Virginia are illustrated in full color during the late steam/early diesel period	59.95	Item Total:
10107	"Dining on the B& O"; Recipes and Sidelights from a Bygone Age, by Thomas J. Greco and Karl D. Spence (BORHS members), in Association with the B& O Railroad Museum. 2009, 176 pp., 16 color illustrations, 25 halftones. There are Preface, Foreword, and Introduction, but this is a book of original B&O Dining Car recipes, cuisine that won wide acclaim as the finest railroad food in the country. Also with bibliography and index. Until Jan 15 this book will be available at a special introductory $10 discount to Society members (only current members) to be taken at time of shipment by the Company Store.	34.95	Item Total:
10108	"B&O Diesel Roster" by Jim Mischke. Earlier edition than 10025 but at a good price reduction. Good buy if the latest information is not necessary. Only a very few of these older editions in stock. Order quickly to get one of these remaining copies	25.00	Item Total:
10109	"West Virginia Railroads - Railroading in the Mountain State", by Tom Dixon. Softbound, 128 pages, 200 photos and illustrations, covering an overall history of railroads operating in West Virginia, including B&O, C&O, N&W, VGN, Western Maryland, and NYC, focusing on the years 1940-1960. Also has small sections on short lines and logging operations, including some related to the B&O. This is the first volume in a planned series of books focusing on the individual railroads	25.95	Item Total:
10110	"Baltimore & Ohio Facilities In Color Volume 2: Central Region" by Bob Withers. The shops, stations, towers and other facilities of the B&O's Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Akron, and Chicago Divisions and the Chicago Terminal Region are examined in color. This volume appears to focus more clearly on facilities than did Volume 1	59.95	Item Total:
10111	"Baltimore & Ohio Facilities In Color Volume 3: Western Region" by Bob Withers. Final part of the trilogy	59.95	Item Total:
10112	"BR&P In Color, Vol 3 - Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh Div" by Mike Zollitsch	59.95	Item Total:
10113	"Baltimore & Ohio Through Passenger Service In Color", by Bob Withers. Chapters cover the famous passenger routes in full color. It is mostly diesel locomotion with some steam, especially on the Cincinnatian. There are a number of interior shots plus images of various advertising items and operations artifacts	59.95	Item Total:
10114	"Railroad Bridges, Harford County's Rural Heritage" by Jack Slagena and Henry Peden. The B&O ran through Harford County, Maryland, and a part of this 110 page soft bound book involves the B&O. There is also a short story about the Susquehanna River Bridges and pictures of other bridges along the line. There is also a discussion on the Aberdeen Station	30.00	Item Total:
10119	"Ex-B&O Lines in Northwestern Pennsylvania" by Robert W. Burns. The Knox and Kane Railroad and the Buffalo and Pittsburg Railroad (of 1988), soft bound, 68 color pages. The K&K coverage is from diesels in 1978 through steam in 1998. The B&P section covers the BR&P in 1986 through the B&P in 1998"	15.00	Item Total:
10120	"The Elk River Coal & Lumber Company", by Brooks Stover. The Elk River Coal & Lumber Company was the owner and operator of the Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad. It was a customer of the B&O from the time of its inception in 1904 to the end of its life in the 1960s. Not only did it provide the B&O a stream of coal and lumber to move out of the timberlands and hollows of West Virginia, but it also was a purchaser of B&O equipment. Several cabooses and consolidations made their way to the Elk River's BC&G subsidiary, one of which survives to this day in Gaithersburg, MD. Brooks Stover has compiled an excellent collection of photographs and provided an extremely readable narrative and captions to give the reader a wonderful overview of the company, its rail operations, and the towns that sprang up to support them. If you have any interest in West Virginia logging and coal short lines, this is a great book to have in your collection	32.95	Item Total:
10121	"Rails Across Central New Jersey"; Bernhart/Hallock; covers CNJ, Reading, B&O, Leheigh Valley in the '40s. Chapter on B&O is 10 pages. Hardcover, 96 pp, B/W photos	22.95	Item Total:
10122	"Rails of Western Pennsylvania"; Bernhart/Hallock; covers PRR, Westrn Alleghey, Pittsburgh & Shawmut, Union, P&LE, Winfield, B&O in early '50s. Chapter on B&O is 20 pages. Softbound, 56 pp, Color and B/W photos	19.95	Item Total:
10123	"To the Wide Missouri", by Louis Garavaglia. Hard copy, 384 pp. Explores all types of transportion taking the people westward. Routes used and life details into the 1840s	28.00	Item Total:
10124	"West Virginia Railroads Vol 3: B&O", by Bob Withers. Hard copy, 128 pp. B/W photos with descriptive captions, mostly steam, with early diesel. Includes maps, timetables, some text. Provides a B&O history by division	29.95	Item Total:
10125	"Buffalo Creek & Gauley RR in Color" by Withers and Stover. H/C, 128 pgs. All-color review of BC&G and Elk River Coal & Lumber	59.95	Item Total:
10126	"C&O/B&O Cabooses, Display and Private Owner Cars, volume IV", by Dwight Jones. S/C, 80 pgs, B/W. 78 more cabooses with lives after the railroad	18.95	Item Total: