Found these books on Craigslist

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Found these books on Craigslist

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Was looking at craigslist today and came across these books. Called the guy and he wants 200.00 Have no clue if there worth it. Will pick them up sunday.
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Could be the ICS books. A great find.
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Grab 'em. If you don't want them, give me the information and I'd buy em.
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When I get time I would like to put each book in a PDF.
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Excellent acquisition!
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Going bulk rate. I paid 150 for same set ten years ago. This is the"locomotive engineer's set.
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You stole them if you bought them. I have found that almost every live steamer I have talked to wants a set. They were a learning coarse and until diesels if you wanted to progress up the ladder in RRs particularly for a Engineer's ticket these are the books you used. I have seen these offered at as much as $50.00 each. This is not the complete possible set but it is the important ones.
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The ICS books have a wealth of information on railroads and any number of other topics. Ebay searches for "International Textbook Company" or the earlier "Colliery Engineer Company" will turn up all kinds of interesting topics. Bill Fitt did a nice reprint of the locomotive topics as a four volume set titled "The Steam Locomotive Study Course." A nice addition to the library if you can find a set.
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They are ICS books, It looks like whoever got them never used them. They look untouched, pages and the foldouts are all perfect. In the bottom of the box was the Constitution of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen 323 pages of what they can do and not do.
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If you can stand reading them on line, here's a link:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/we ... %20Schools
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Yes Greg, I did see them there also. The problem you cannot download the whole PDF. you can download single pages, but it will not let you print them. Must be a Google thing I guess they want CASH.
Ass so as I get time I will put each book in a PDF and upload them here. That way you can save and print them if you want. If there too big I do have a drop box account and i will just put the link where there at.
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I did a scan of the Locomotive Valve Settings, it was 28.3MB in Pdf.
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