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8vo. 41, [1] pp. Blue tinted photogravure frontisp., 9 blue-tinted photogravure plates (4 w/ two images). Brown decorated publisher's cloth, black lettering & borders on front cover, decorated endpapers (slight shelfwear, rear inner hinges starting, slightly shaken), still VG copy from the library of Herman S. Chalfant (1881-1957), longtime Pennsylvania paper wholesaler and manufacturer, based out of Pittsburgh, PA. First edition of this nicely illustrated catalogue touting the steam locomotives produced and exhibited by the historic Pittsburgh Locomotive Works during the Columbian Exposition. The locomotives featured included an experimental large Passenger Compound Locomotive, the Mogul Compound Freight Locomotive for the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway; a Freight Locomotive and Tender for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton RR, as well as a narrow gauge four-wheel saddle tank locomotive engine. Founded in 1865 by Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Miller, the company quickly grew supplying quality large locomtovies for the Bltimroe & Ohio, Acheson, Topeka & Santa Fe, Manhattan Elevated, and the Union Pacific thriving until 1901 when it was consolidated into the American Locomotive Co.…