Lone Star Trains & Collectibles 4161 Naco-Perrin Blvd. San Antonio, Tx 78217 (210) 655-4665
Railroad Books
Lone Star Trains carries all sorts of Railroad books, old and new, collector editions and 99- centers. We especially like the out of print books. Come on in and browse!
We also carry the complete line of train price guides by Greenberg.
Here's just some of our enormous railroad book selection:
| American Flyer Service Manual (hardback) 402 pages and OUT OF PRINT | $150 | |
| B&O Thunder in the Alleghenies (Mellander) | $14.95 | |
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1931 Baltimore Radio catalog Dealers great reference Vintage
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$19.95 | |
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1935 Burstein-Applebee Catalog #40 Vintage RADIO supply
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$19.95 | |
| The Crystal River Pictorial by McCoy, Dell A | $49.95 | |
| East Broad Top: To the Mines and Back | $59.95 | |
| Fares Please: Those Portland Trolley Years by Labbe, John T. | $34.95 | |
| Galveston-Houston Electric Railway by Herb Woods. 2nd printing 1976 vg | $25 | |
| Greenberg's Guide to Early American Toy Trains (Carlisle & Finch, Ives, Hafner) by Claytor, W.Graham, Jr... | $149.95 | |
| Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains, 1970-1991 Volume II: Promotions, Sets, Boxes, etc. LONG OOP | $69.00 | |
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The Lionel FasTrack Book (Paperback) by Robert Schleicher |
$29.95 | |
| Mantua Service Manual kit appr 200 pages parts diagram | $39.95 | |
| Mastering the Digitrax Zephyr NEW get the most DCC | $17.95 | |
| New Northern Ohio's Interurbans [Hardcover] by Christiansen, Harry | $74.95 | |
| A Royal Blue Heritage by Don Wood | $14.95 | |
| San Antonio on Wheels: The Alamo City Learns to Drive (Limited number are SIGNED by the author) | $18.95* |
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Souvenir of San
Antonio's Streetcars trolleys  |
$9.95 | |
| Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains | $32.99 | |
| Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains, 1945-1969 | $32.99 | |
| Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains 1970-2000 | $32.99 | |
| Steam in Alleghenies: Western Maryland (Carstens) by Ross Grenard &John Krause | $29.95 | |
| The Story of the Stewartstown Railroad 1885-96 | $19.95 | |
| Tall Pines and Winding Rivers - The Logging Railroads of Maryland | $49.95 | |
| Toys and Prices 2008 | $21.99 | |
Train Shed Cyclopedia 85 Freight & pass
Shops terminals
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$24.95 | |
| Warman's Hot Wheels Field Guide | $12.99 | |
| Warman's Lionel Field Guide | $12.99 | |
| Warman's Matchbox Field Guide | $12.99 | |
JUST IN:
03/26/09: NEW BOOK:
San Antonio on Wheels: The Alamo City Learns to Drive
San Antonio on Wheels:
The Alamo City Learns to Drive
$18.95
Hugh Hemphill
Foreword by Red McCombs
88 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, softcover, 107 illustrations, bibliography, index
ISBN: 978-1-893271-49-4
Horseless carriages came to San Antonio to stay in 1899.
Mechanized transport—including bicycles—revolutionized the way things moved
in the largest city in Texas, though it took a little practice. Following a
series of mishaps, in 1910 city council adopted a formal set of driving rules.
The speed limit was set at 8 miles per hour within one mile of San Fernando
Cathedral and at 15 miles per hour beyond that.
This book documents the San Antonio region’s dramatic transition to modern
transportation, using a host of previously unpublished photographs and a wealth
of new information, brought together here for the first time. The inland city
had always been dependent on horses, oxen and mules. The story unfolds as
bicycles and then horseless carriages transformed the way people moved around,
both in general transport and for recreation. There are rare photos of a
turn-of-the-twentieth-century bicycle racer on a wooden track in Brackenridge
Park and of auto races on the grounds of the International Fair. Also portrayed
is the evolution of streetcars, fire engines, buses and trucks.
Photographs as well as text also portray the struggles of San Antonians to drive
beyond, first to neighboring towns like Kerrville and Corpus Christi, then to
the rest of the world on a rugged new highway known as the Old Spanish Trail
that has since become the general route of Interstate 10.
Includes information on San Antonio traction including
streetcars.
Author Hugh Hemphill is director of the Texas Transportation Museum in San
Antonio and has also written The Railroads of San Antonio and South Central
Texas.
03/27/09:
Standard Catalog of Lionel Trains 1970-2000 $32.99
This unique price guide is the first and only comprehensive full-color reference for modern-era Lionel trains. With more than 2,000 crisp color photos of the most recent era of Lionel trains, detailed listings containing current market prices in Excellent and Like New conditions and helpful rarity ratings, this book is truly unmatched in composition and clarity.
Arranged by type of locomotive or car and then by stock number, you'll find this book very easy-to-use. Additional listings for accessories and Lionel catalogs are included as well. It is the perfect companion to Standard Catalog of® Lionel Trains 1900-1942 and Standard Catalog of® Lionel Trains 1945-1969.
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Greenberg's Pocket Price Guides for Lionel and American Flyer. 
The Flyer book includes S-helper and other modern S gauge values. It is 103 pages, $14.95. The Lionel book includes club cars and everything from prewar to current release. It is 325 pages, $17.95.
05/27/08: Book restock: Warman's Hot Wheels Field Guide, Warman's Hot Wheels Lionel Field Guide, Toys and Prices 2008, Warman's Matchbox Field Guide, Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains.
01/28/08: Greenberg's American Toy Trains From 1900 with values! Includes histories, listings, and values for Lionel, American, Flyer, Marx, Ives, and more. Softback. Long OOP. $24.95
12/3/07: 2008 Official Locomotive Rosters and News, an amazing resource for just $29.95!
09/21/07: JUST IN--Book--Trackwork for Toy Trains by Classic Toy Trains.
09/19/07: Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains--includes Wide Radius (standard gauge); O gauge, S gauge, and HO). This is an amazing book for $32.99.
07/23/07: BOOK: Authoritative Guide to Lionel's Promotional Outfits 1960-1969 by John Schmidt. 846 pages! This amazing book uses 1000's of authentic Lionel documents to give you every detail you can imagine for the Promo Sets of the 1960's. A bargain at $69.95.
06/27/07: New DVDs: Southern California Rails Vol. 1 and 2; restock of Ultimate Tehachapi; new issued of Remember the Rock and Private Varnish;
COLLECTIBLE OUT OF PRINT TOY TRAIN REFERENCES:
Greenberg's Guide to American Flyer Prewar O Gauge $250
Greenberg's Guide to Lionel: Uncatalogued Sets $120
HOTTEST BOOK!
A long-needed resource for helping you with everything Fastrack from wiring to layouts to switches and much more. A bargain at $29.95.S
Lone Star Trains is proud to be the leading seller for Hugh Hemphill's new book, The Railroads of San Antonio and South Central Texas, published January 2006.
This 101 page softcover book has been a long time coming--it reviews the important railroads that have made up South and Central Texas from the beginning to today. Every page is packed with both lots of great info as well as tremendous photographs, images, and illustrations--many never before published. In stock and only $18.95.
From the cover: The regional operations and impact of seven historic rail lines, ranging from the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio to the Misssouri–Kansas–Texas, are sorted out ... The lines and their descendants have been responsible for the region's initial development as well as for such recent breakthroughs as Toyota's selection of San Antonio in 2002 for a new plant location.
Some of the railroads covered include the San Antonio and Aransas Pass (SAAP), Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio (GH&SA), International and Great Northern, San Antonio and Gulf, San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf; Amtrak, Southern Pacific, Artesian Belt, Union Pacific, MKT, Missouri Pacific (Mopac), San Antonio Southern, Asherton and Gulf; St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexico; and the Texas Mexican (Tex-Mex).
If you are a serious railfan, and especially a devotee of Texas Railroading, you will NOT want to be without this book.
A book like this is also a valuable research tool for local historians and geneologists. It covers cities, towns, and communities such as San Antonio, Hondo, Converse, Marion, Houston, Galveston, Victoria, Seguin, Kirby, LaCoste, Macdona, Dunlay, Sabinal, D'Hanis, Uvalde, Kyle, San marcos, New Braunfels, Wetmore, Monte Vista, Von Ormy, Lytle, Devine, Pearsall, Cotulla, Encinal, Laredo, Berg's Mill, Elmendorf, Floresville, Marcelina, Poth, Karnes City, Brackenridge, Falls City, Kenedy, Beeville, Skidmore, Sinton, Gregory, Portland, Corpus Christi, Aransas Pass, Rockport, Boerne, Welfare, Waring, Comfort, Center Point, Kerrville, Halletsville, Yoakum, Martinez, Saunders, Adkins, Carpenter, Lavernia,Sutherland Springs, Stockdale, Granger, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Austin, Taylor, Elgin, Bastrop, Smithville, Lockhart, New Braunfels, Christine, Kirk, Somerset, Tarbutton, Poteet, Jourdanton, Pulliam, La Pryor, New California, Crystal City, Carrizo Springs, Palm, Brundage, Big Wells, Las Vegas, Woodward, Gardendale, Dobson, Bolton, Dull, Fowlerton, Zella, Prince, Hindes, Dobrowski, Charlotte, Pleasanton, Leming, McCoy, Campbellton, Whitesett, Sunniland, Three Rivers, Kittie West, George West, Mikeska, Dinero, Mt. Lucas, Cornelia, Mathis, Edroy, Odem, and Viola.
NEW IN: Standard Guide to Lionel Catalogued Train Sets 1945-69. This book chronocles all of Lionel's catalogued sets of the postwar era, including the components, the prices, and rarities. This is a tremendous value for $29.99.
NEW IN: Standard Guide to Lionel Trains PREWAR, 1901-1945. This is a tremendous value for $29.99. You get pictures, rarity, descriptions, values and more for locomotives, rolling stock, accessories, sets, catalogs, and MORE. it would take you 4 volumes of Greenberg's hardbacks at $50 each to get all that is in this one $29.99 volume.
Standard Guide to Lionel Trains POSTWAR, 1946-1969. This is a tremendous value for $32.99. You get pictures, rarity, descriptions, values and more for locomotives, rolling stock, accessories, sets, catalogs, and MORE. it would take you 4 volumes of Greenberg's hardbacks at $50 each to get all that is in this one $29.99 volume.
Kalmbach's latest benchwork guide and Classic Railroads You Can Model.
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2008 Official Locomotive Rosters and News
Authoritative Guide to Lionel's Promotional Outfits 1960-1969 by John Schmidt. 846 pages
Greenberg's American Toy Trains From 1900 with values
Collias' old out of print book KATY POWER $99.
The Lionel FasTrack Book (Paperback)
by Robert Schleicher
Logging Railroads
The Railroads of San Antonio and South Central Texas
Standard Guide to Lionel Trains PREWAR, 1901-1945.
Standard Guide to Lionel Trains POSTWAR, 1946-1969.
Trackwork for Toy Trains by Classic Toy Trains