Index to Thread Shed Cyclopedias Vols. 1-81
Updated July, 2017

Train Shed No. 1: LOCOMOTIVES from the 1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia; 104 Pages
Train Shed No. 1: General Description: Names of Parts; Freight Lcomotives starting with 0-6-0's through 2-8-8-8-2's;Passenger Cars starting with 4-4-0's through 4-8-2's.

Train Shed No. 2: SWITCHING & FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES from the 1930 Locomotive Cyclopedia; 86 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 2: Names of Parts; Freight Lcomotives starting with 0-6-0 Throught 2-8-8-8-2's

Train Shed No. 3: BOX, STOCK & REFRIGERATOR CARS from the 1932 Car Builders' Cyclopedia; 80 Pges
Train Shed No. 3: box, Automobile box, Ventilated box, Poultry and Stock, Refrigerator General and Refrigerator Milk Cars

Train Shed No. 4: COMPLETE SET OF RULES & REGULATIONS FOR THE PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT OF A LCOMOTIVE ENGINE, AND FOR THE GUIDANCE OF ENGINE DRIVERS, 1848; 30 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 4: Quaulifications; Pay and Conditions of Service; Duties; Extra Trains; Luggage Trains; Repairing Road; Accidents; Fogs; Descending Inclines, Ascending Inclines, Extra Inclines; Tunnels, Junctions; Reports; Duties in Sheds; Piloting.

Train Shed No. 5: GONDOLAS and HOPPERS from the 1940 Car Builders' Cyclopeida; 88 Pages
Train Shed No. 5: Gondolas: Class GB, GA, GH, GS; Hopper Cars: Class HM, HT, HE, HG, MWB, HMA, HD, LO

Train Shed No. 6: PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVES from the 1930 Locomotive Cyclopedia; 77 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 6: Whyte's Classifications System; Recent Locomotive Construction Orders; Passenger Locomotives from 4-4-0's through 4-8-2's; 3 cylinder Locomotives from 4-8-2's through 4-12-2's; High-pressure water tube boiler Locomotives; Tank and Narrow Gauge Locomotives

Train Shed No. 7: BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICN RAILROADS, 1893 (Part 1); 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 7: Watchman's Shanties, Section Tool Houses, Section Houses, Dwelling Houses for Employees, Sleeping Quarters, Reading Rooms and Club Houses for Employees; Snow sheds and Protection Sheds for Mountain Slides, Signal Towers, Car Sheds and Car Cleaning Yards, Ash-pits, Ice Houses, San Houses.

Train Shed No. 8: PASSENGER CARS from the 1931 Car Builders' Cyclopedia; 88 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 8: A.R.A. Classifications of Passenger Train Cars, Suburban Coaches, Thru-line Coaches, De Luxe and Combination Coaches, Night Coaches; Floor Plans, Chair Cars, Interiors of Lounges, Baggage-Buffets, Limited Trains, Dining and Cafe cars, Sleeping Cars, Business and Pirvate Cars, Baggage and Express Cars, Postal Cars

Train Shed No. 9: WAR AND STANDARD LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS (1919) from the 1919 Locomotive Dictionary and Cyclopedia, and the 1919 Car Builders' Dictionary and Cyclopedia; 88 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 9: US Standard Locomotives -0-6-0 through 2-8-8-2; Details, Tonnage Charts; Weights Diagrams and Clearance Diagrams.  War Service Locomotives from 0-4-0 Saddle Tanks up to 2-10-0 American built for use overseas.  Box, Refrigerator, Gondola, Flat, Tank, Dump and Push Cars, Gun Transports, Gun Mounts, Armored Cars, American built for use overseas.  Hospital Trains and Cars.  USRA Standard Cars;  Box, Hopper, Gondola, Tank and Flat Cars, Baggage Cars, Refrigerator Cars, Car Trucks and Postal Car Details

Train Shed No. 10: RAIL MOTOR CARS OF THE 1930'S from the 1931 and 1937 Car Builders' Cyclopedias; 88 Pages
Train Shed No. 10: Rail Motor Cars: Gas-Mechanical and Trailers, Gas-Electric, Distillated-Electric, Oil-Electric and Trailer; Power Plants; Steam Cars, Storage Battery Cars, Electric Cars, Electric Equipment.  Motor Trains, such as "Zephyrs", "Cities", "Super Chiefs" and others.

Train Shed No. 11: CABOOSE CARS 1879-1943 from the Car Builder's Dictionaries and Cyclopedias for the years 1879, 1888, 1898, 1903, 1906, 1912, 1916, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1943; 64 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 11: Every Caboose Car listed in any Car Builders' dictionary or Cyclopedia from 1879 - 1943.  Some inevitable duplications.

Train Shed No. 12: TANK CARS from the Car Builders' Cyclopedias for the years: 1922, 1925, 1928,  1931, 1937, 1940, 1943; 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 12: List of Parts; Photos and Darawings of just about every type of Tank Car, including Refrigerated Milk, Special containers, Wine Cars, 1, 2 and 3-Dome cars, and 6-compartment 6-Dome Cars.

Train Shed No. 13: BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, 1893, (Part 2); 85 Pages
Train Shed No. 13: Oil Storage Houses, Oil Mixing houses, Water Stations and Coaling Stations for Locomotives

Train Shed No. 14: 4-8-4's AND OTHER HEAVY PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVES from the Locomotive Cyclopedias for the years 1927, 1930, 1938 and 1941; 70 Pages
Train Shed No. 14: Three-Cylinder Locomotive Explanations; Three-Cylinder Locomotives from 4-8-2's through 4-12-2's.  All 4-8-4's shown in years covered; 4-4-4-4's; High Pressure compound Locomotives; 6-4-4-6 non-articulated

Train Shed No. 15: HEAVY TRACTION from the Locomotive Cyclopedias for the years 1922, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1938 and 1943; 88 Pages
Train Shed No. 15: Name of Parts; Heavy Electric Locomotives and Mechanical Details, Electrical Details

Train Shed No. 16: FAMOUS PASSENGER TRAINS from the 1943 Car Builders' Cyclopedia; 72 Pages
Train Shed No. 16: Trains, Coaches and Combination Cars, Observation Club Cafe Parlor Cars, Dining Cars, Pullman Sleeping Cars, Business Cars, Baggage and Express Cars, Mail or Postal Cars.

Train Shed No. 17: BOX, STOCK AND FLAT CARS from the 1943 Car Builders' Cyclopedia; 72 Pages
Train Shed No. 17: Box, Automobile, Ventilator Box, Stock and Poultry, Flat Cars including Well-hole and Depressed Center, Underframe details; 72 Pages

Train Shed No. 18: LOCOMOTIVES selected from the 1916 Locomotive Dictionary; 88 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 18: Whyte's Locomotive Classifications, Complete Locomotive Section starting with 0-4-0's through 2-8-8-8-2's; Rack and Fireless, Shay Geared and Gasoline; Nmes of Parts

Train Shed No. 19: BUILDING AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, 1893, (Part 3); 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 19: Engine Houses, Freight Houses and Platforms, Platform Sheds and Shelters.

Train Shed No. 20: DIESEL ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES from the Locomotive Cyclopedias for the years 1925, 1927, 1930 and 1938
Train Shed No. 20: Oil-Electrics; European Diesels; Hydraulic Transmissions; Gasoline and Gas-Electric Rail Cars; Steam Rail Cars; Diesel-Electric Switchers; Combination Locomotives; Electric Battery and Diesel Switching Locomotives.  Includes first American Diesel-Electrics.

Train Shed No. 21: PASSENGER CARS from the 1943 Car Builders' Cyclopedia; 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 21: Coaches, Grill Coaches, Chair Cars, Lounge, Dining, Sleeping, Business, Troop Sleepers, Baggage, Express, Horse Express and Mail Cars.

Train Shed No. 22: STEAM LOCOMOTIVES from the 1938 Locomotive Cyclopedia (Part 1); 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 22: Names of Parts; Switching Locomotives from 0-6-0's through 4-8-8-2's Heavy Articulated; Passenger Locomotives from 4-4-0's through 4-6-4's.

Train Shed No. 23: STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND TENDERS from the 1938 Locomotive Cyclopedia (Part 2); 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 23: Passenger Locomotives 4-8-2's through 4-8-4's; Three-Cylinder 4-10-2's through 4-12-2's; Tank Locomotives; Narrow Gauge Locomotives, High Pressure Compound Type Locomotives.  Tenders: General Drawings, Tanks, Frames, Water Scoops, Trucks.

Train Shed No. 24: BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, 1893 (Part 4); 92 Pages
Train Shed No. 24: Combination Depot, Flag Depots and Locomotive Passenger Depots

Train Shed No. 25: ELECTRIC MOTOR CARS from the Car Builders' Dictionaries and Cyclopedias for the years: 1888, 1898, 1903, 1906, 1912, 1916, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928 and all relevant illustrations from Modern Locomotives 1901; 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 25: Street Cars; Cable, Electric and Horse; Coaches; Electric Car Bodies; Electrical Machinery; Trucks; Motor Car Details

Train Shed No. 26: RAILWAY SERVICE CARS from the Car Bulders' Dictionaries and Cyclopedias for the years; 1928, 1931, 1937, 1940 and 1943 (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 26: Classification of Maintenacne of Way; Equipment Cars, Wreaking Equipment; Locomotive Cranes, Pile drives, Steam Shovels, Rail Saws, Spreader-Ditchers, Ballast Equipment, Dump Cars, Inspection and Section Cars, Snow Plows and Flangers, Clearance Cars, Test Weight Cars, Bunk Cars, Supply Cars, Instruction Air Brake Cars, Dynamometer Cars and Dump Cars

Train Shed No. 27: SIGNALS AND SIGNAL SYMBOLS from the 1911 Railway Signal Dictionary; 32 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 27: Standard Symbols for Operating, Disc Signals, Insulating Rail Joints, Bridges, Crossings, Train Stops, Switches, Relays, Indicators and Locks, Circuit Controllers operated by Levers, Circuit controllers operated by Signals, Batter and Electrical.  Signal Indications: Semaphores, Blocks and Interlocking.  Ground Post Signals, Bracket Post Signals, British Signals, Block Signals, Highway Crossing Signals, Interlocking Signals, Accessories

Train Shed No. 28: CARS, SCALES AND GATES from the 1909 Buda Catalog; 160 Pages
Train Shed No. 28: Motor Velocipedes, Section Motor Cars, Inspection Motor Cars, Bridge Gang Motor Cars, Track Laying Cars, Tie Cars, Bolster Car.  Repair Part lists and scaleable photographs of the Repair parts themselves.  Hand Velocipedes: repair parts and photos; Railroad Scales; Track, Depot, Coaling Station, Tipple Waggon and Stock Dump; some with lists of parts and photos of parts.  Pneumatic Gates, Lever Gates, Crank Gates, Fence Gates, Swinging Gates, Electric Gates and some special Gates.  Many with parts lists and scalable drawings of parts

Train Shed No. 29: FREIGHT CARS, 1892, by William Voss; 80 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 29: Freight Car Bodies, Draw Bars, Floors and Framing, Sheathing and Roofs, Doors, Stock Car Bodies, Flat Cars, Coal Cars, Ore and Refrigerator Cars, Standard Arch-Bar Trucks, Swing Motion Trucks, Steel and Wood Construction, Freight Car Brakes, Power Brakes

Train Shed No. 30: RAIL MOTOR CARS, 1919-1928, from the Car Builders' Dictionaries and Cyclopedias for the years 1919, 1922, 1925 and 1928; 64 Pages
Train Shed No. 30: Motor Cars powered by Steam, Electricity, Gasoline, Electricity, Gasoline, Oil-Electric.  All the little known Manufactureres represented from Stanley through Mack, McKeen, White, Bowen; as well as the better known Manufacturers, such as Brill, A.C. & F., and others.  Four-page table from the 1925 Car Builders' showing specifications for well over 100 different units supplied to many Railroads.

Train Shed No. 31: LOCOMOTIVES (Part 1) from the 1927 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice. 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 31: Drawings showing location of parts of Locomotives and lists of parts.  All the Freight Locomotives from the 0-6-0's through the big 2-8-8-8-2's Articulateds built for the Erie by Baldwin.  Passenger Locomotives starting with the 4-4-0's and almost completing the 4-8-2's.

Train Shed No. 32: LOCOMOTIVES, TENDERS AND TRUCKS (Part 2) from the 1927 Locomotive Cyclopedia. 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 32: Locomotives: 4-8-2's, 3 cylinders, High-pressure Water tube Boilers; Tank and Narrow Gauge.  Engine Trucks: 2 wheel leading, 4 wheel leading; 2 wheel trailing, 4 wheel trailing.  Tender Trucks: 4 wheel, 6 wheel.  Locomotive Tenders: General Designs; Tanks and Tank Details; Underframes; Coal Pushers.

Train Shed No. 33: BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, 1893, (PART 5); 72 Pages
Train Shed No. 33: Big Terminal Passenger Depots, beginning.

Train Shed No. 34: SHAYS AND OTHER GEARED LOCOMOTIVES from the 1901 Modern Locomotives, Say Catalogs of 1919 and 1921, Shay Bulletin 3-S, and Locomotive Dictionaries and Cyclopedias from the years: 1901, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1927, 1930, 1938 and 1941; 64 pages
Train Shed No. 34: Mostly Shays, but some Heislers, 1 Rack Locomotive and assorted General Steam Locomotives; mostly from the Shay catalogs themselves.  Includes every Geared Locomotive ever shown in the Locomotive Cyclopedias from 1901 through 1941.

Train Shed No. 35: FRIEGHT CARS (Part 1) from the 1919 Car Builders' Dictionary; 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 35: Box, Automobile, Hopper, Ore Hopper, Gondola, Dump and Flat Cars.

Train Shed No. 36: FRIEGHT CARS (Part 2) from the 1919 Car Builders' Dictionary; 80 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 36: Tank, Stock, Poultry, Horse, Heater and Refrigerator, Speical, Caboose, Miscellaneous, Logging, Mine, Snow Flangers and Plows, Ballast Spreaders, Cranes, Pile Drivers, Steam Shovels and a few Gondolas, Hoppers, Tanks, etc., from advertising pages.  Material Loading Diagrams: 16 pages on loading of materials showing actual diagrams for loading of various materials in Box, Flat and Gondola Cars.

Train Shed No. 37: INDUSTRIAL AND FOREIGN LOCOMOTIVES from the 1930 Locomotive Cyclopedia; 72 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 37: Industrial Locomotives: Steam, Fireless-Steam, Compressed Air, Geared-Steam, Rack-Steam, Electric and Storage Battery, Gasoline and Oil.  Service Equipment: Snow Plows and Flangers, Dynamometer Cars.  Foreign Steam Locomotives: Light Tank, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, South America, Africa, Asia; Articulated-European built; High-Pressure Water Tube, Pulverized Coal, Turbine

Train Shed No. 38: BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, 1893 (Part 6); 72 Pages
Train Shed No. 38: Contents and Lists of Illustrations for all six Parts.  End of Terminal Passenger Depots.

Train Shed No. 39: PASSENGER CARS, 1892, by William Voss; 80 Pages
Train Shed No. 39: Passenger Car Varieites, Dimensions and Floor Frames, Platforms and Couplers, Superstructure and Framing, Superstructures Interiors; Passenger Car Trucks.  Full Details Pullman Palace Car Company Standard Sleeping Car; Full Details Wagner's Latest Palace Car; Detailed Pennsylvania Railroad's Pasenger Car and Standard Passenger Car Truck; detailed New York Central and Harlem River Railroad Passenger Car; detailed Boston & Albany Standard Passenger Car.

Train Shed No. 40: LOCOMOTIVE CABS AND FITTINGS (Part 1) from the 1927 Locomotive Cyclopedia; 40 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 40: Photographs and drawings of the Locomotive Cabs showing layout of controls and general construction.  Construction details including Roofing, Seats, Handrails and even Running Boards.  Safety valves - Steam and Air Gauges, Speed and Cut-Off Indicators; Water Gauges; Valves and Cocks; Water Columns; Low Water Alarms; Blow-off Valves; Turrets; Heating Valves

Train Shed No. 41: LOCOMOTIVE CABS AND FITTINGS (Part 2) from the 1927 Locomotive Cyclopedia; 40 Pages (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 41: Cab Fittings; Train Heating; Whistles; Bells and Bell Ringers; Lighting Equipment; Lamps; Piping (and flexible connections); Locomotive Tinware and Tool Equipment.

Train Shed No. 42: PASSENGER CARS from the 1919 Car Builder's Dictionary; 32 Pages
Train Shed No. 42: Baggage Cars; Postal Cars; Express Cars and combinations thereof; Coaches; Parlor and Observation Cars; Chair and Parlor; Dining Cars; Sleeping and Special Cars; Floor Plans.

Train Shed No. 43: DIESEL & OIL ELECTRICS from Westinghouse (1930) and Ingersoll-Rand (1936); 64 Pages
Train Shed No. 43: Single & double Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotives

Train Shed No. 44: LOCOS from BALDWIN LOGGING LOCO CAT 1913 & LOCOMOTIVE STOKER CAT 1919; 128 Pages
Train Shed No. 44: Operating Duplex Stoker and Street Stoker fired locomotives; Baldwin Logging Locomotives; Double-Ender Locomotives

Train Shed No. 45: LOCOS OF THE 40'S & 50'S (Steam) Part 1 from the 1941 LOC CYC and RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Train Shed No. 45: C&O 2-8-4 Locomotives; High Speed and High Horsepower Output Characterize Modern Motive Power; C&O 2-6-6-6 Locomotives

Train Shed No. 46: FLATS, GONDOLAS AND HOPPERS (Part 1) from the 1931 CAR BUILDER'S CYCLOPEDIA; 
Train Shed No. 46: Wine Drop-End Locks for Gondola Cars; Enterprise gondola Cars; Hart Selective Car; Enterprise Hopper Cars; Wine Cast Body Bolster; Cross bearers; Hopper Frames; 70-ton Hopper Car

Train Shed No. 47:  (Not in GGLS collection)
Train Shed No. 47: 

Train Shed No. 48: HOPPERS, INDUSTRIALS, LETTERING (Part 2) from the 1931 CAR BUILDER'S CYCLOPEDIA
Train Shed No. 48: Wine Cast Body Bolster; Cross bearers; Hopper Frames; 70-ton Hopper Car; Wine Drop Door Locks for Hopper Cars; Wine Cast Steel Hopper Frame; A.C.F Freight Cars; Bettendorf-Built Freight Cars; Freight Cars; Representatives of Mount Vernon Construction; All-Steel Freight Equipment; Freight Cars and Details Made by Pullman; Lettering and Marking of Cars

Train Shed No. 49: LOCOS OF THE 40'S & 50'S (Steam) Part 3 from the 1941 LOC CYC and RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Train Shed No. 49: Fourteen-Wheel Tenders; P.R.R Q-2 Locomotives; Western Maryland Shay; Locomotives Built in Canada; Erie 4-6-2 Locomotives; Alton Locomotives Modernized; Hudson Type Locomotives on the New York Central; 4-6-4 Type Locomotives Built by Baldwin; Freight-Passenger Locomotives; C&O 4-6-4 Passenger Locomotives

Train Shed No. 50: LOCOS OF THE 40'S & 50'S (Steam) Part 4 from the 1941 LOC CYC and RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Train Shed No. 50: C&O 4-6-4 Passenger Locomotives (con't); N.&W. Automatic Switcher; New York Central 4-8-2 Type Locomotives; New York Central All-Round Road Locomotive (4-8-2); 4-8-4 Type Locomotive Built by Baldwin

Train Shed No. 75: CABOOSES and FREIGHT CAR CONSTRUCTION DETAILS (Part 4) from the 1943 Train Shed No. 77: 
Train Shed No. 75: Freight Equipment Designed and Built in Canada; Light-Weight All-Welded Box Car; Freight Car Designed and Construction at Mt. Vernon; Typical Examples of Modern Freight Equipment; Pullman-Standard Frieght Equipment; Freight Cars:  Built New, Rebuilt, Reparied; U.S.S. High Tensile Steels for Freight Car Constrution; Freight Car Construciton Details; N-A-X High Tensile for Freight Car Construction; All Steel Roofs for House Car; Youngstown Doors and Camel Fixture for House Cars; Youngstown Steel Car Side Units

Train Shed No. 77: FREIGHT CAR CONSTRUCTION DETAILS, UNDERFRAMES & BRAKES (Part 6) from the 1943 CAR BUILDERS CYCLOPEDIA
Train Shed No. 77: Youngstown Containers for L.C.L. Freight; Superior Welded Doors and Ball-Bearing Door Fixtures; Gustin-Bacon Fiberglas Refrigerator Car Insulation; Johns-Manville Refrigerator Car Material; Dreadnought Doors for Gondola and Hopper Cars; Royal Foundation Brake Gear Regulators; Miner Power Hand Brake;

Train Shed No. 81: FREIGHT CAR CONST. DETAILS, SAFETY APPLIANCES & TRUCKS (Part 6) from the 1943 CAR BUILDERS CYCLOPEDIA
Train Shed No. 81: Superior Hand Brake Equipment; Safety Appliances; Car Trucks; Allied "Full Cushion" Truck; Buckeye Trucks for Freight Cars; The National B-1 Truck with Dual Control; A.S.F Freight Car Trucks; Scullin Freight Car Trucks; Barber Stabilized Truck -- Lateral Motion; The Barber-Bettendorf Caboose Car Truck; Gould Trucks for Freight Cars; The Unit Truck; Buckeye Double-Truss Truck Side Frames and Bolsters; Q & C Co. Car Devices;