Taplines

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24 Years of Southeastern Railroad History and Photographs since 1996

Mutual Crate Co. of Avon Park by Don Hensley

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My EBAY Store Has Reopened!
Taplines Railroad Photography
5x8 Locomotive Portrait Photographs - Official Guides & Registers on CD
Poors Manuals on CD - Steam & Diesel Builders lists on CDs
NEW- INDIVIDUAL RAILROAD RESEARCH CDs or DVDs -NEW
Each individual Railroad Research CDs or DVD contain all the Official Guides, Equipment Registers, Poors Manuals, ICC Valuations, Rosters, Timetables (employee & public), maps, diagrams and other research materials that I have collected and digitized over the years. The guides run from 1854 to 1969, the Equipment Registers from 1888 to 1975 and the Poors Manuals from 1866 to 1917. The railroads available now include the Atlanta & West Point (includes Georgia RR & Western Ry of Alabama), Atlanta Birmingham & Coast, Atlantic & Danville, Atlantic Coast Line, Baltimore & Ohio, Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Buffalo Creek & Gauley, Central of Georgia, Centrak Vermont, Charleston & Western Carolina, Chesapeake & Ohio, Chesapeake Western, Clinchfield, Colorado & Southern, Colorado Midland, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Durham & Southern, East Broad Top, East Tennessee & Western North Carolina, Florida East Coast, Gainesville Midland, Georgia & Florida, Interstate, Kentucky & Tennessee, Louisville & Nashville, Lancaster & Chester, Maryland & Pennsylvania, Maine Central, Maine Two Footers, Monon, Norfolk & Western, New York New Haven & Hartford, Rio Grand Southern and other Colorado narrow gauge, Seaboard Air Line, Southern, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Virginian, Western Maryland. CDs are $15 and DVDs are $20, includes postage.
More railroads are coming soon!

Table of Contents

Locomotives
Locomotive Photos and History from my collection

The Short Lines
The Jitneys of the Georgia Northern(updated 4/11/20200)

Aberdeen & Rockfish RR 125th Anniversary

Railroads of Ocala
Silver Springs & Western
Rentz Lbr. Co. & its Ocala Northern
Ocklawaha Valley & Rodman Lumber Co.
Martel Lumber Co. & Ocala & Southwestern

2 Part Series on the Trans Florida Central
1 The Fellsmere Railroad
2 The Trans Florida Central

2 Part Series on the Charlotte Harbor & Northern
1 The Peace River Phosphate Co.
2 CH&N History