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CIVIL WAR RAILROADS!--1861-1865--EXTENSIVE HISTORY! TONS OF RARE PHOTOS! RARE!

$ 8.44

Availability: 81 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Theme: Militaria
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Conflict: Civil War (1861-65)
  • Condition: NEAR MINT/LONG OUT-OF-PRINT
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Time Period Manufactured: 1861-1865
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

    Description

    "CIVIL WAR RAILROADS--PICTORIAL STORY OF THE IRON HORSE 1961 THRU 1865" is a long out-of-print 60 year-old text and photographic reference on Civil War railroads and trains. It is LOADED with rare original photographs and little-known information! This is an truly extraordinary reference on Civil War railroading with original photos of rolling stock, stations, bridges, car floats, rail-borne artillery, wrecks, eye-witness accounts and much more!
    The U.S. Military Railroad is here big time! Manassas Junction is here! The Orange & Alexandria (VA) Railroad is here! Bull Run Crossing is here! Troop movements by rail are here! The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad is here! The U.S. Military Railroad engine "DOVER" is here (a 4-4-0 with outside frames)! Rail Yards are here! The Mason-built locomotive "GENERAL HAUPT" is here! The locomotive "E.M. STANTON" is here! The B&O Railroad is here! The roundhouse for the Orange & Alexandria RR in Alexandria is here! The Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad is here! The old railroad station at Broad & Cherry Streets in Philadelphia (built in 1838) opened as a Civil War hospital in 1861 is here! The Taunton Locomotive Works-built "STUART GWYNN" (a 4-4-0) is here! The South Side Railroad Depot (VA) is here! Cedar Creek Trestle (huge wooden trestle) on the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad in North Carolina is here! The Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad is here! Civil War POWs are here! The Atlanta & LaGrange Railroad is here! The locomotive "TEXAS" of the Western & Atlantic Railroad is here! Lincoln's last train ride is here! Lincoln's funeral train is here! MUCH MUCH MORE! JAM-PACKED with RARE UNPUBLISHED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS!    SEE ATTACHED PHOTOS FOR SAMPLE PAGES.
    Book is HARDBACK with DUSTJACKET published in 1961. It is in NEAR MINT CONDITION, measures 8 1/4" x 10 3/4", and contains 192 pages.
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