Please note that if an issue is listed as "Sold Out,” that
means the issue truly is sold out! Many of these magazines are in short
supply, and the economics have thus far not supported reprinting old issues.
We do not have the ability to make photocopies of out-of-print materials
at this time. Fairly complete sets of the Bee Line are available
for review at the archives of the Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA. Back issues can occasionally
be found on eBay; in addition, commercial dealers
sometimes sell old issues of the Bee Line at train shows. However,
if a particular issue is out of print, prices are often much higher than
those listed below.
Prices indicated below are for both Society members and non-members.
Proceeds from Bee Line sales benefit our ongoing work to preserve
and restore equipment and artifacts from the Reading Railroad. Send check
or money order for payment along with quantity and year(s) desired to:
Year |
Issue |
Price |
Contents |
1979 |
summer |
SOLD OUT |
• GHw Gondolas, Modeling 40-ft Boxcars |
|
1980 |
winter |
SOLD OUT |
• M&H Br. Becomes a Shortline
• Minersville Station
|
• Modeling RDG Trainmasters in HO
• RDG Trainmasters (history) |
|
1980 |
spring |
SOLD OUT |
• Sinking Spring Station
• Restored Near RDG |
• World War II Hoppers |
|
1980 |
summer |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG Trucks ’N Trains |
• Diesel Histories; RDG FT’s |
|
1981 |
fall/
winter |
SOLD OUT |
Double Issue:
• RDG
Steel Cabooses (NE style) |
• Diesel Histories; the GP30 |
|
1981 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• Motive Power Development on the P&R
(reprint)
• Steam Today on RDG Br. Lines |
|
1981 |
3&4 |
SOLD OUT |
• Diesel Histories; The FP7’s
• Lebanon Station Restored
• Cushion Underframe |
• The Last Baldwin
•
RDG Model News; Decals |
|
1982 |
1 |
$2.75 |
• Diesel Histories; The Green Diesels, Part
1 |
|
1982 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• Power Car; (mobile electrical
• generator car) |
• Memos From the Secretary;
• RCT&HS Activities |
|
1982 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• Diesel Histories; The Green Diesels, Part
2 |
|
1982 |
4 |
$2.75 |
|
1983 |
1&2 |
SOLD OUT |
• RCT&HS Anniv. Banquet, P&R Charter
1833
• P&R Sesquicentennial |
• RDG Company Route Construction
Dates |
|
1983 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG Bluebirds in Philadelphia |
• Model Notes, Caboose Review, Custom Brass |
|
1983 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• 150th Anniv. Rail Rambles
•
Decal Set Reviews |
• RCT&HS Picnic Committee
Report |
|
1984 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG-ize Your Diesel Units
•
Consolidation, Brass Engine Review |
• RCT&HS Modular Layout |
|
1984 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• Wilmington & Northern; Historical
Overview |
|
1984 |
3 |
$1.75 |
• FM Demonstrators on the RDG |
|
1984 |
4 |
$2.75 |
• RDG’s Great American
• Locomotive Class D-8 |
• Wilmington & Northern Update |
|
1985 |
1 |
$2.75 |
• Hist. of RDG Terminal (RT)
•
When the US Mail Rode the Rails to RT
• RT Power
Plant |
• RT Market
• Reflections on
the Last Night of RT
• One RDG Center, the Future
of RT |
|
1985 |
2 |
$2.75 |
• Bert Pennypacker, Railfan
•
RDG Brass Models; Class I-8 |
• Modena
• Modeling NE Style
RDG Cabooses |
|
1985 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• Early Track Engineering on the P&R
• Steam Power Car |
• Modeling RDG Co. Coal Boxes |
|
1985 |
4 |
$2.75 |
• RDG Cabooses; Where Are They Now
• RDG’s Bean Car Trio |
• RDG Brass Models, Class L-7 |
|
1985 |
Special |
SOLD OUT |
• T-1 Commemorative Booklet |
|
1986 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• Rambling in the 80’s; Behind the
Scenes
• RCT&HS Loco Shop Open |
• Return of the Iron Horse
Rambles |
|
1986 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
|
1986 |
3 |
$2.75 |
• RCT&HS, its Hist.
• RCT&HS
Current Activities |
• RCT&HSThe Track Ahead
• RDG OE9 Class Switchers, the EMD NW-2’s |
|
1986 |
4 |
$2.75 |
• RDG Retrospective
• Video
Reviews
• Modern Tool Cars |
• We Couple Carefully, Diesel
Loco Stenciling
• Modeling Octagonal 2-Stall Outhouse |
|
1987 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• Ancient Hist.; Financing the Early P&R
• Named Centuries; the ALCO C430’s
•
Fire Fighting Rail Equip. |
• Joanna Turn
•
Modeling Tips “MA” Tower, Lansdale |
|
1987 |
2 |
$2.75 |
• RDG Retrospective; 1850’s Description
• Passenger Roadswitchers
• Review of Bethlehem
Car Works
• HO
RDG Coach Kit |
• Golden Gate Flatcars
• Modeling
Lansdale’s “MA” Tower
• Modeling
Octagonal Outhouses |
|
1987 |
3&4 |
SOLD OUT |
Double Issue: Crusader Train
• Features of New #117 and #118
• RDG’s
Streamlined Train Takes the Rails
• Instructions
for Handling
• Streamlined
Train |
• Lily Pons Christens Crusader
•
Crusader on “Leave of Absence”
• Crusader
Sold to Canadian National
• RDG Retrospect; the
Crusader/Bob Linden |
|
1988 |
1 |
$3.75 |
• RDG Retrospective; early operations
• Boiler Explosion at North Line Breaker
•
“BE” Tower, Birdsboro |
• ALCO S-2 Switchers
• Modeling the Crusader in HO Scale |
|
1988 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG Retrospective
• Century
630’s, ALCO’s Last on the RDG |
• Saving a Century
• Modeling
an ALCO C630 |
|
1988 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG Retrospective, Blizzard of 1888
• Snow Fighting Rail Equip.
• Modeling Tips,
Flanger Boxcars |
• Diesels and Snowplows
• Modeling
Pilot Snowplows
• Was There a Rotary on the RDG? |
|
1988 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• How Important Was the RDG
•
GP35’s, The Cadillacs
• Coatesville Yard |
• Writing on the RDG (railroad
paperwork)
• RDG Helps Carpenter Steel Celebrate
100 Years |
|
1988 |
sp |
$2.75 |
• Commemorative Booklet, First Train to
Norristown |
|
1989 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• Coal and Consolidations |
• Cavalcade of RDG 2-8-0’s |
|
1989 |
2 |
$3.75 |
• RDG in Elverson
• Fuel Instruction
Car |
• GP7’sThe Favorites |
|
1989 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG Retrospect; The Outer Station |
• RDG “DC” Office |
|
1989 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• America’s Last Pacifics; Class G-3
• 216 Hits Fuel Truck at Port Carbon |
• Wrecks of the G-3 |
|
1990 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• Auxiliary Tenders
• RDG Retrospect;
G. A Nicholls Funeral
• Catawissa Br. Hist., Part
1 |
• RDG’s Central Division in HO Scale
• Status of Freight Cars with RDG
• Reporting Marks
• New Britain Station |
|
1990 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG in Retrospect; Overview of 20th Cent.
• RDG Co. Non-Revenue Equip., Part 1
• Catawissa
Br. Hist., Part 2 |
• Exploring the Bethlehem Br.,
Part 1
• RDG Equip. Register, FMh Heavy-Duty Flatcars |
|
1990 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG in Retrospect, RDG Terminal
• Catawissa Br. Hist. Part 3
• RDG Co. Non-Revenue
Equip., Part 2 |
• Exploring the Bethlehem Br., Part 2
• RDG Equip. Register, XAPd Boxcars
• Building
RDG Style Caboose Steps in Brass |
|
1990 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG in Retrospect; Shops/Managers in 1930’s
• Catawissa Br. Hist., Part 4
• Exploring
the Bethlehem Br., Part 3 |
• Postcards From the Bethlehem Br.
• Nocturnal Interstate Express, Train 301
•
RDG Equip. Register, GHo Gondolas |
|
1991 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG in Retrospect; Daly Engine
• First RR Schuylkill Co.
• Diesel Era on
the Bethlehem Br. |
• Remembering RDG Terminal
•
Catawissa Br. Hist. Part 5; West of Lofty
• Hard
Rock Part 1, Intro. to Coal Fields |
|
1991 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• RDG in Retrospect; Shamokin Div. Hist.
• Hard Rock Vol. 2; Zerbe Valley RR,
• Kathryn
Colliery |
• Harrisburg Stations of the RDG
•
Catawissa Br. Hist. Part 6; Dark Run Trestle
• RDG
Equip. Register, HTwa Hoppers |
|
1991 |
3 |
$4.75 |
• RDG in Retrospect: Various Topics
• Philadelphia’s Freight Crossroads, Part 1 |
• Hard Rock Vol. 3, Trevorton/N. Franklin
Collery
• RDG Weigh-in-Motion Scale |
|
1991 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• Philadelphia’s Freight Crossroads,
Part 2
• Hard Rock Vol .4; Cameron,
• Glen Burn Collery |
• RDG’s First Centuries
•
Modeling the XLl Boxcar in HO Scale |
|
1992 |
1 |
$4.75 |
• RCT&HS Fifteenth Anniv. Dinner
• RDG & Columbia Story; Part 1
• Hard
Rock Vol. 5; Carbon Run Br. |
• Catawissa Br. Part 7, Ringtown Derailment
• Wheel Cars
• Rear-end Collision at Vastine |
|
1992 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• Catawissa Br. Hist. Part 8, Ringtown
• RDG & Columbia Hist.; Part 2 |
• Hard Rock Vol .6; Carson/Star/Eureka Operations
• Chalfont Station |
|
1992 |
3&4 |
$10.50 |
• Double Issue:
•
RDG’s Ballast Cleaning Car
• Modeling the
RDG’s Refrig. Boxcar in HO
• Denver: RDG Steam
in Early 1900’s |
• LOf Covered Hoppers
• RDG & Columbia Hist.; Part 3
• Catawissa
Br. Hist. Part 9; Ringtown Bridge/Fill
• Hard Rock
Vol. 7; Sterling Operation |
|
1993 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• Diesel Memories of the Bethlehem Br.
• Hard Rock Vol. 8, Burnside Colliery Area
•
Stables For Iron Horses (steam-era roundhouses) |
• Doylestown Yard and its Steam
Locos (1943-48)
• Catawissa Br. Hist. Part 10; Ringtown |
|
1993 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• List of Steam-Era Roundhouse
•
Stables for Iron Horses, Part 2 (steam roundhouses) |
• Hard Rock Vol. 9; North Line
Coal Co.
• Retired Chief ShipperLocust
• Summit Breaker |
|
1993 |
3 |
$4.75 |
• Catawissa Br. Hist. Part 11,
•
Grade Crossing Collision
• RDG Company Express Messenger
Cars |
• Commuting on the RDG to RDG
•
Hard Rock Vol. 10; George Fales Colliery
• Hump
Motor Cars |
|
1993 |
4 |
$4.75 |
• Hard Rock Vol. 11; Bear Valley Colliery
• Huntington Street Coach Yard, a Night at Port Kennedy
Interlude |
• Bear Valley Colliery/the Disappearing
Cupola
• Crane Derailment at Port Clinton
• Scale Test Cars |
|
1994 |
1 |
$5.75 |
• RDG’s Continuous Welded Rail Train
• Hard Rock Vol. 12, Flat Vein/Clinton/Webster
•
RDG Belt Railroad |
• Locos seen in RDG Terminal (mid-1940s)
• Memories of a Telescope Maker
• Return of
RDG Terminal |
|
1994 |
2 |
$5.75 |
• Transportation in Kimberton
•
Modeling End Protect./Rail Runoff Cars in HO |
• Hard Rock Vol. 13; Frank
Gowen/Marshall Collery |
|
1994 |
3 |
$5.75 |
• RDG Retrospective; Schuylkill Canal vs.
P&R
• Steam Memories of a Tank Town, Monocacy |
• Many Faces of RDG Steam Engines
• Advertising on Bridges |
|
1994 |
4 |
$5.75 |
• RDG’s Changeable Ten-Wheelers |
|
1995 |
1 |
$5.75 |
• Lebanon Scene Part 1, L&T Mixed
• Epilogue, Other L&T Fan Trips
• West
End ExcursionFan Trip Story |
• Hard Rock Vol. 14Royal Oak/Alpha
Colliery
• Details That Will Make a Difference
• Derailed at Granogue |
|
1995 |
2 |
$5.75 |
• The Gordon Plane
• Mine Hill
& Schuylkill Haven RR |
• Lebanon Scene Part 2Exploring
Lebanon |
|
1995 |
3 |
SOLD OUT |
• Mahanoy Plane and Surrounding
• Collieries |
• Table of T-1 Data and Roster |
|
1995 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• Wilmington & Northern Br. |
|
1996 |
1&2 |
$11.50 |
• All Gas-Electric Double Issue
•
Fatal Wreck of 4066 |
• Steam Powered Doodlebug
•
Working Days on a Doodlebug |
|
1996 |
3&4 |
$11.50 |
• Double Issue:
•
Pride of the Crossline; K1 Steam Locos |
• Rutherford Classification
Yard |
|
1997 |
1 |
$5.75 |
• Report of Accomplishments for 1940 |
• Wilmington Memories |
|
1997 |
2 |
$5.75 |
• RCT&HS 20th Anniv. Banquet
•
ICC Valuation of 1917 |
• Port RDG Coal |
|
1997 |
3 |
$5.75 |
• The Leesport Wreck
• Explosion
of W&N Number 10 |
• RDG Class XMt Boxcars |
|
1997 |
4 |
$5.75 |
• Tracking Six Wheelers (0-6-0 switchers)
• RDG’s Class B7a Switchers |
• Build a Kitchen Table B9a |
|
1998 |
1 |
$6.75 |
• Penn Avenue Wreck
• Exploring
the Burning Question |
• 53 Years With the RDG |
|
1998 |
2 |
$6.75 |
• Boardwalk Flyer Takes a Ride on Boardwalk
• Clearance Measuring Cars |
• RDG’s Wheel Truing Machine
• Wheel Truing in the RDG Shops |
|
1998 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• Hurricane Diane Strikes Tamaqua |
• RDG’s XMu Boxcars |
|
1998 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• Full Coverage Class E 0-8-0 Steam Switchers |
|
1999 |
1 |
$6.75 |
• Gettysburg Freight House Fire
•
Class GHn Coil Steel Cars |
• Bethlehem Br. Memories of Charles Smith
• Engine House Symbols |
|
1999 |
2 |
$6.75 |
• Amazing Longevity of #765
•
Forrest Trittenbach
• Hard Rock Vol. 15, Henry Clay
Colliery |
• Working in the Dispatchers
Office
• Wheat Smut Control Train |
|
1999 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• Abrams Yard in the Diesel Era (in color!)
• Mail on the Atlantic City Railroad |
• Early Train Service on the Catawissa
• Fort Point Lighthouse Keeper |
|
1999 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• Wreck of 2105 at Lebanon Valley Jct.
• Down the Main Line (employee reminiscence)
•
Hard Rock Vol. 16Big Mountain Colliery |
• Perkiomen Br. Siding List1900
• Little Schuylkill Operations1862 |
|
2000 |
1&2 |
$15.50 |
Double Issue: RDG 2-8-2s
• Powerful Mikados on the RDG
• RDGs
Universal Mikados |
• Mikado Modifications
• Erie
Avenue Boiler Explosion
• Myerstown Troop Train
Wreck |
|
2000 |
3&4 |
$13.50 |
• 1940s Bridge Strengthening Program
• History of the Reading FP7s |
• All-Time Bee Line Article Index
• The P&R in Maryland |
|
2001 |
1 |
$6.75 |
• CoatesvilleHeart of the W&N |
|
2001 |
2 |
$6.75 |
• Monocacy Water Station |
• P&R in the Nittany Valley |
|
2001 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• RDG’s New GP30
• Winslow
Junction Wreck |
• 1886 Locomotive Coal Usage |
|
2001 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• Early Catawissa RR Hist.
•
Tamaqua Wreck of NP-10 |
• 1940 Locomotive Assignments |
|
2002 |
1&2 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
•
Complete Hist. of the RDG’s 4-6-2 Steam Locomotives |
|
2002 |
3&4 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
• Hist.
of Grace MinePart 1 |
|
2003 |
1 |
$6.75 |
• 1940s-era railfanning
• Montoursville
wreck |
|
2003 |
2,3&4 |
$19.50 |
Triple Issue
•History
of 16th Street Junction, Philadelphia |
|
2004 |
1&2 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
• Hist. of Grace MinePart 2 |
|
2004 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• Laureldale and the Low Grade
• Letters
from 1875 |
• Train-Trolley Collisions in the 1940s |
|
2004 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• Quinter's Bridge Wreck
• History
of Quinter's Bridge |
• Reading Terminal Coach Cleaners |
|
2005 |
1&2 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
• Philadelphia-Gordon
Rail Ramble
• Blandon and the Lowgrade
•
Passenger Car Data Sheets |
• Saint Clair Photos
• Superintendent's
Letters of 1846-47
• Coaling Steam Locomotives -
1950 |
|
2005 |
3&4 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
•
Valley Forge Scenic Railroad |
|
2006 |
1 |
$6.75 |
|
2006 |
2 |
$6.75 |
• Tonnage Freight Trains
• Reading on the
Reading |
• Milk Train Circular - 1883 |
|
2006 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• Wernersville Wreck of 1942
• Rembrance
of the Reading |
• World War II Defense Plants |
|
2006 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• Pawnee-class Locomotives |
• Newberry Fast Freight |
|
2007 |
1&2 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
• Boy Scout Jamborees at Valley Forge |
2007 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• "F-Car" ore
hoppers
• Lebanon ore concentrator |
|
2007 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• 150 Years on the Reading's
Bethlehem Branch |
2008 |
1&2 |
$13.50 |
Double Issue:
• Reading Railroad Passenger Trains |
2008 |
3 |
$6.75 |
• Gardening on the Reading
• Reading RDCs
• Next Station - Phoenixville |
2008 |
4 |
$6.75 |
• 1908 P&R Veteran's Association Trip to
Eagles Mere
• NP-10 Wreck at Barnesville
• Career of H.S. Keppelman |
Index compiled by Rick Bates, Publications chair.