Western Wheeled Scraper Company - 50 Years Service - RARE railroad + mining book
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Really amazing vintage antique book about the railroad cars and other heavy construction equipment of the Western Wheeled Scraper company of Aurora, IL. It is also a catalog (No. 71) for " Dump Cars & Machinery for handling Earth and Stone ". 84 pages full of historic photos of the company's Aurora, Illinois plant, railroad construction, excavation work, road building, mining, dam building and so forth. Also lots of information about antique implements like dump cars, ditching machines, ditching trains, apron dump cars, Western Special coal cars, Quarry cars, Western Spreader Cars, batch boxes, mixer skips, Western car trucks, grading machinery, flat cars and much, much more. A must-have for the the lover of pre-World War II heavy machinery or railroad cars. Features historic pictures of: Illinois Steel Company, Panama Canal, L and N Railroad, coal mining, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Illinois Central Railroad, United Verde Copper Company, Japanese railroad work on Formosa, Hudson River Connecting Railroad, Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Iron Mountain Railroad, Boston and Albany Railroad, Detroit Terminal Railroad, rip-rap work, pit mining, Standard Slag Company, Algoma Steel Corporation, Mesaba Iron Range, Hibbing Minnesota,
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