Lightning Stripes / New York Central System (volume 1)
(Morning Sun Books, Edison, NJ, 1990). First Edition. Quarto. Item #008390
First printing. 128pp. This is a photographic adventure on the New York Central Railroad, two decades from 1944 to 1964. Starting from Boston, the sequence of pictures moves west over the Berkshire Hills to the Hudson Valley then across New York State into Ohio, passing through Cleveland, Toledo, and Cincinnati. This journey captures the nostalgia of steam and first generation diesels in action mixed with a few unites from Central's final years.A very good copy bound in gray cloth lettered and decorated in silver, spine lettering silver, previous owner's inscription marked with whiteout. In very good pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $30.00