Bother inlaw stopped by today with a stack of railroad books he wished me to have.
Like most thanked him and thought o.k will donate’em to either my MRR club or the local libary for their book sale.
After he and his wife finished yakking with us and had left went over to check out the books he had left. First one i picked up had me absolutely breathless…IRON HORSES OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL by E.D Worley.
This book was and still is the difinitive motive power listing of the ATSF and even though printed in 1965 its still on every Santa Fe fans drool list. And on top of that this copy is in execellent condition with the clear plastic over the dust jacket.
The second was THE TRAINS WE RODE by Beebe and Clegg.
While the 1990 edition still an very very good book and again in excellent condition.
Yep’ been a very nice day.[:D] [Y]
Always pays to look before one leaps (or passes on to the next, in this case).
We could all use in-laws like that.
Have fun,
Richard
I remember wanting this for six or seven years but I couldn;t afford the collectors’ edition prices. Was a treasure when I got the reprint, and it remains a treaure, battered with use.
Not quite as battered as A Quarter Century of Santa Fe Consists…
I found that when something drops into your lap look it over then take a few days and look it over again. You never know what it may contain. I’m one of those guys that can spend hours going throw thru boxes of old books.
I noticed the typo “bother in law”, was this a Freudian slip?
I had the opposite, ad said tens of train and railroad books $10 each. So I drove an hour to look through the books. Every one was what I call a garbage book. The books that repeat a really general history of railroads and have the same pictures and photos that are in encyclopedias. “Steam Locomotives of the World”, “The History of Western Railroads”, etc. Blah blah blah, nothing like a “Titan’s of the Timbers” in the bunch. I can’t image where this “railroad” person ever found so many virtually worthless books.
On the other hand I got my Iron Horses of the Santa Fe on ebay about a year ago for about $35.