THE CLIFF MERRITT RAILROAD COLORING BOOK, A PUBLICATION OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN, CLEVELAND,OHIO 1960'S Unusual coloring book by Cliff Merritt, who is known for his pro-labor comic books and also for his syndicated newspaper strip called "Cliff Merritt's Scrapbook of Men on the Move". This coloring book is fun and instructional and covers passenger and freight trains, semaphore signaling, lantern signals, railroad yards and yardmen (including the control panel in a large yard), switching and switchmen, old-time boilers, steam engines, diesel engines, conductors, brakemen, safety, repair and maintenance operations (tamping machines, track-aligning machines, etc.), office operations for dispatching, old-time telegraph, car types, (hoppers, switchers, twin hoppers, piggybacks, dining cars, refrigerator cars, gondolas, cabooses, pent-house and cupola cabooses, (including a cutaway of a caboose with a brakeman on a radio-telephone), conductors, "road engines", uniforms of railroad personnel, ticket counters, and much more. Also covers the busses that got people to the trains. Page on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, page on the history of the brotherhood. Page on futuristic trains (of the time). The inside back cover has a short quiz. 36 PAGES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION- ALL THE PAGES ARE CLEAN 8 1/2" X 11"

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