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| Author: | SteveRG [ Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Steam Passenger Service Directory |
In the Classified section of this site someone had posted Steam Directories for sale on Ebay but unfortunately they were sold because it was last year. These make great collectors items and I have about 6 from various years. Is Empire State Railway Museum still in the habit of printing these directories? If not them, anyone for that matter? Are they still in production? If so, who sells them? |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Steam Passenger Service Directory |
If I recall the history correctly, Mark Smith of Loco & Ry. Preservation Magazine took over editing/publishing the original SPSD on behalf of the Empire State Ry. Museum. At about the same time, Kalmbach Publishing started publishing its annual Tourist Guide to Tourist RRs and RR Museums. It sort of became a clash between ESRM/L&RP and Kalmbach, seniority and completeness versus "big Kahuna" of publishing. Eventually, a few years ago. Kalmbach came right out and bought out the rights to the SPSD from ESRM, and substantially overhauled it. Starting in 2007, it switched to bi-annual publication; the next edition is due out at the beginning of 2009, if not a few weeks earlier. Old SPSDs make somewhat fascinating reading for the geeks among us that track what went where, the failed potentials of such things as FEC 148, C&O 377 on the Toledo, Lake Erie & Western, and the Cumberland Falls Scenic RR,and the like; but in the grand scheme of things they're as useful as an old phone book. Many museums, including the RR Museum of Pa. and the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, have complete sets--I think the Maryland Rail Heritage Library set takes up three linear shelf feet. [Disclaimer: Written by a paid contributor to Kalmbach's 2007 and 2009 editions.] |
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