The book A.C. Gilbert's Heritage is being reprinted after a 33-year hiatus. The 164-page 8 ½ x 11 inches softcover perfect bound book features a collection of informative American Flyer/Erector articles and photos including: -Gilbert family history -Illuminating interviews with Sales Manager Maury Romer -Gilbert Gallery of photos with one-of-a-kind items and mockup train models...have you ever seen a Gilbert anti-aircraft gun on a flatcar or an Erector dirigible? -See Gilbert price list from 1951 (65 years ago!) -Gilbert advertising artwork -Photos of the Chicago Gilbert Hall of Science -Complete 1947 to 1965 highlight descriptions of American Flyer trains and accessories -Rare AF Circus Sets -Gilbert s outside suppliers: Colber, Mini-Craft, Bachmann -1956 Gilbert s colorful comic books -AF dealer displays, signage to complete layouts -Those fascinating Erector Sets -See how the Gilbert factory was laid out - The intense WWII work at Gilbert

A.C. Gilbert's Heritage: A Collection of Rare American Flyer Articles and Photos

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Heimburger House Publishing Co.

The Wabash Railroad ran through the Heart of America with nearly 2,500 miles of track from Buffalo, New York, to Kansas City and Omaha, serving such towns as Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. Its beautiful steam locomotives included the Class J 4-6-2s, Class L 2-10-2s, Class O 4-8-4s and Class P 4-6-4 steam types, and diesels such as the F-7As, FAs, E-7s, E-8s and PAs. Wabash passenger trains included the City of St. Louis, City of Kansas City, Blue Bird, Banner Blue and the very famous Wabash Cannonball.

Wabash

Engineering & Transportation

Heimburger, Donald J.

Transportation

Several persons, at least, have wondered if there actually is, or ever was, a railroad called the Fiddletown &amp; Copperopolis. Admittedly, in an age of Hubble spacecraft and cell cloning, this is hardly a question of burning import. Of all the railroads that might have been, however, surely the most deserving is the Fiddletown &amp; Copperopolis.
 Carl Fallberg, a former assistant director and storyman on Walt Disney feature-length animated cartoons, has captured the flavor of worn out, run-down narrow gauge railroads in his illustrated book entitled none other than Fiddletown &amp; Copperopolis, or as Fallberg liked to say, “The Life and Times of an Uncommon Carrier.”
 To anyone familiar with the lore of America’s celebrated three-foot railroad lines, the feeling persists that within these 144 pages lies a disguised pictorial history of prototype narrow gauge railroads in a very humerous vein. Fallberg, now deceased, chronicles the saga of the colorful Fiddletown &amp; Copperopolis (“The Line of Least Resistance”) in drawings which are both inordinately detailed and witty. The key word in Fallberg’s illustrations is exaggeration, which he invokes frequently. Artist Fallberg worked for the Chicago &amp; NorthWestern Railroad, and during World War II, served as a master sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Photographic Section. It was during this period that he conceived the F&amp;C railroad, and later it came to life on the pages of Railroad magazine.
 Heimburger House, a leading publisher of railroad books and magazines, reintroduced a second edition of Fiddletown &amp; Copperopolis in 1985 after a lapse of some 25 years. The new 1997 edition features a four-color cover and all the original Fallberg illustrations that make the Fiddle-town &amp; Copper-opolis a very special railroad. The 9 5/8 x 6 1/4” softcover book is 144 pages, one cartoon per page.

Fiddletown & Copperopolis

Fallberg, Carl

Sports & Outdoors

This large colorful volume highlights the late steam and early diesel era of America’s railroads during the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. This era was a time of great upheaval and tremendous progress for rail lines. Trains of America focuses on the period of time when steam locomotives were replaced by diesels, when lighter rail was replaced by heavy welded rail, when centralized traffic control became the norm and when employee rosters were downsized. Its 204 pages contain nearly 400 large, all-color freight and passenger train photos taken on 85 different railroads throughout the U.S. and Canada, such as the NYC, SF, B&amp;O, CP, C&amp;O, Milwaukee, CGW, CNW, Burlington, EJ&amp;E, FEC, GN, GM&amp;O, IC, KCS, L&amp;N, MP, Pennsy and WP. Trains of America recreates the past in a variety of memorable color scenes, from main line steam locomotives pulling mile-long freight trains to 44-ton diesels rambling with a box car or two through New England rural woods. Our most popular title!

Trains of America: All-color railroad photography featuring the late steam and early diesel era

Heimburger, Donald

This volume features 140 photographs and 26 folio drawings, as well as maps, timetables and equipment rosters from 1891 to 1956, when the last standard gauge steam locomotive roamed the Rio Grande. It traces the development of Rio Grande’s steam locomotives from the early days to the last days of steam when locomotive fires were dropped and diesels took over the task of hauling tonnage through the beautiful but rugged Western terrain.
 Rio Grande Steam Locomotives is a book that will interest not only Rio Grande fans, but also steam locomotive fans as well. Besides giving an overview history of the railroad, the book highlights numerous standard gauge steam locomotives from the 0-6-0 and 4-6-2 to the giant 2-8-8-2 and 4-6-6-4. Two special chapters are included in the book: one chapter features Rio Grande steamers built by the American Locomotive Company and its predecessor companies, and another chapter features more builder’s photographs from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. There are 14 chapters in all, each adding more valuable information and photographs to the exciting steam locomotive history of this popular Western railroad.

Rio Grande Steam Locomotives: Standard Gauge

Share in the exciting adventures of A.C. Gilbert, the inventive genius behind AF trains and Erector Sets. This autobiography reads like an exciting adventure tale, because Gilbert led a remarkable life. Hardbound, 388 pages, 5¼ x 8½".

Man Who Lives in Paradise: Autobiography of A. C. Gilbert with Marshall McClintock

Biographies & Memoirs

Gilbert, A.C.

Historical

The third in a series of Norwood's memories of life on the Rio Grande, this hardbound book continues with the fascinating stories of special operations, equipment and events on the railroad. An eight-page color photo section and 200+ black and white photographs illustrate incidents throughout the entire history of the Rio Grande. The author was employed by the Rio Grande for almost 40 years and is a recognized authority on the history of the railroad.

Rio Grande Memories

Norwood, John

It is the last of its breed east of the Rockies and the oldest narrow gauge railroad in the nation. Built in the early 1870s, the East Broad Top hauled iron, coal, ore, minerals and passengers for over 83 years. The three-foot-gauge trackage twisted along a picturesque 32-mile route connecting Mount Union, Orbisonia and Robertsdale in remote and beautiful south-central Pennsylvania.
 The "Eastie" earned its keep until the end of regular operations in the autumn of 1956. With the closing of the last Rockhill Coal Company mine, the EBT quietly closed its doors. It had outlived hundreds of its slim gauge counterparts across the country. The EBT connected isolated communities with the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad in Mount Union. It was here that the "narrow railroad" interchanged with the "Standard Railroad of the World," using unique three-rail trackage and its own engines equipped with dual couplers.
 When the EBT stopped hauling coal in the late 50s, it was not torn up. While waiting for scrap prices to rise, owner Nick Kovalchick and his family became interested in preserving the line. A group of Orbisonia citizens, who wanted to celebrate the settlement's bicentennial, approached the Kovalchick Salvage Company in 1960 about the possibility of reopening a portion of the line. EBT's Operating Vice President C. Roy Wilburn was still on the payroll and, after much hard work and hard cash, the EBT reopened on August 13, 1960 for tourist service over a short section of trackage that ran north out of Orbisonia. Now, the rest is history.
 The EBT is unique and colorful in many ways. No where else can steam locomotives be found operating over original tracks with their three-way stub switches positioned by Harp switchstands. The Orbisonia shop complex, built after the 1882 fire, is one of the most outstanding examples of steam-powered, beltdriven machinery in America.
 Along the old line, the rails and bridges are still in place, tunnels wait in empty silence, cars are scattered about the Mount Union yards, and a standard gauge switcher still waits in the old, two-stall enginehouse for the restoration of the entire railroad.
 The EBT stands today as it did yesterday, unique in the field of historic, authentic narrow gauge railroading in the East.

Colorful East Broad Top

Ferrell, Mallory

This book tells the story of the only two-foot-gauge railroad in Colorado. This 2nd edition contains 120 historic black-and-white photographs, many of which have never before been published, three maps, sketches and scale drawings of some of the rolling stock and locomotives are also included.

The Gilpin Gold Tram: Colorado's Unique Narrow-Gauge

Ferrell, Mallory Hope

This 8 x 11” softcover summarizes the type of equipment supplied to customers of the Norfolk & Western Railway in the 1920s. This 20-page book contains black and white photographs of hoppers and gondolas, general arrangement drawings of cars with capacity specifications, car series numbers and car classifications.

Norfolk and Western Railway, Coal Car Equipment: Carrier of Fuel Satisfaction

Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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