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From: "oaks_@_facstaff.uindy.edu" (Jeffrey A. Oaks)
To: "RAILROAD_@_CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU"
Subject: Date nail & tie preservation book
Date: Mon, 01 Mar
I recently finished writing the 559-page book _Date Nails and Railroad Tie
Preservation_. Below is the table of contents. To order a copy, send $22.00
(post paid) to:
Jeff Oaks
3223 S. Temple Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46237
Feel free to send this note to whoever might be interested. I have sold 77 out
of 100 copies so far, which means I'll be going into a second printng soon.
Contents to _Date Nails and Railroad Tie Preservation_ by Jeff Oaks
(Spiral bound, 8 1/2" x 11", paperback.)
Volume I.
Introduction........................................1
History of railroad tie preservation
Contents........................................19
History of railroad tie preservation............20
Tables..........................................64
Short biography of Octave Chanute...............76
Railroad listings A-H..............................91 (to 184)
(for each railroad I list nails they used, along with info on their tie
preservation and record keeping policies)
Volume II. (pagination continues from Volume I)
Railroad listings I-Y.............................185
Index of railroads without entries................345
Treatment company sets............................346
Shadow sets.......................................347
About the author..................................352
Volume III. Photographs and Reverse listing.
Photographs of nails
Introduction to the photographs..................1
Date nails showing the year only.................5
Letter nails....................................75
Letter-number tie nails.........................95
Letter-number nails.............................98
Single digit code nails........................121
Switch nails...................................135
Pole height and depth nails....................142
Descriptions of some nails not shown..............146
Reverse listing
Introduction...................................149
Reverse listing................................150
Index of railroad initials.....................198
Quick guide to shank markings.....................203
559 pages total. The three volume set costs $22.00. That's cheap for a well
researched book!
---Jeff Oaks
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