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internet access to our On-Line Store, please call our Museum Store Saturdays from 10AM to 4PM or
Sundays from noon to 4PM or write to RCT&HS, Attention Bee Line Sales, P.O. Box 15143, Reading
PA 19612-5143 and we will assist you with ordering.
Note that "s/o" means the issue is Sold Out! Many of these magazines are in short supply, and the
economics have so far not supported reprinting old issues. We do not have the ability to make photocopies
of out-of-print materials at this time. A fairly complete set of the Bee Line is also available for review at the
archives of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg, PA.
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 |
SOLD OUT |
• 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 |
SOLD OUT |
|
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 |
SOLD OUT |
• FM Demonstrators on the RDG |
|
1984 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• RDG’s Great American
• Locomotive Class D-8 |
• Wilmington & Northern Update |
|
1985 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
SOLD OUT |
• 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 |
SOLD OUT |
• RCT&HS, its Hist.
• RCT&HS
Current Activities |
• RCT&HSThe Track Ahead
• RDG OE9 Class Switchers, the EMD NW-2’s |
|
1986 |
4 |
SOLD OUT |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
|
• Commemorative Booklet, First Train to
Norristown |
|
1989 |
1 |
SOLD OUT |
• Coal and Consolidations |
• Cavalcade of RDG 2-8-0’s |
|
1989 |
2 |
SOLD OUT |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
|
• 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 |
SOLD OUT |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
|
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• Transportation in Kimberton
•
Modeling End Protect./Rail Runoff Cars in HO |
• Hard Rock Vol. 13; Frank
Gowen/Marshall Collery |
|
1994 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• RDG’s Changeable Ten-Wheelers |
|
1995 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• All Gas-Electric Double Issue
•
Fatal Wreck of 4066 |
• Steam Powered Doodlebug
•
Working Days on a Doodlebug |
|
1996 |
3&4 |
Buy Now |
• Double Issue:
•
Pride of the Crossline; K1 Steam Locos |
• Rutherford Classification
Yard |
|
1997 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• Report of Accomplishments for 1940 |
• Wilmington Memories |
|
1997 |
2 |
Buy Now |
• RCT&HS 20th Anniv. Banquet
•
ICC Valuation of 1917 |
• Port RDG Coal |
|
1997 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• The Leesport Wreck
• Explosion
of W&N Number 10 |
• RDG Class XMt Boxcars |
|
1997 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• Tracking Six Wheelers (0-6-0 switchers)
• RDG’s Class B7a Switchers |
• Build a Kitchen Table B9a |
|
1998 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• Penn Avenue Wreck
• Exploring
the Burning Question |
• 53 Years With the RDG |
|
1998 |
2 |
Buy Now |
• Boardwalk Flyer Takes a Ride on Boardwalk
• Clearance Measuring Cars |
• RDG’s Wheel Truing Machine
• Wheel Truing in the RDG Shops |
|
1998 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• Hurricane Diane Strikes Tamaqua |
• RDG’s XMu Boxcars |
|
1998 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• Full Coverage Class E 0-8-0 Steam Switchers |
|
1999 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• Gettysburg Freight House Fire
•
Class GHn Coil Steel Cars |
• Bethlehem Br. Memories of Charles Smith
• Engine House Symbols |
|
1999 |
2 |
Buy Now |
• Amazing Longevity of #765
•
Forrest Trittenbach
• Hard Rock Vol. 15, Henry Clay
Colliery |
• Working in the Dispatchers
Office
• Wheat Smut Control Train |
|
1999 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
• 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 |
Buy Now |
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 |
Buy Now |
• 1940s Bridge Strengthening Program
• History of the Reading FP7s |
• All-Time Bee Line Article Index
• The P&R in Maryland |
|
2001 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• CoatesvilleHeart of the W&N |
|
2001 |
2 |
Buy Now |
• Monocacy Water Station |
• P&R in the Nittany Valley |
|
2001 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• RDG’s New GP30
• Winslow
Junction Wreck |
• 1886 Locomotive Coal Usage |
|
2001 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• Early Catawissa RR Hist.
•
Tamaqua Wreck of NP-10 |
• 1940 Locomotive Assignments |
|
2002 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
Double Issue:
•
Complete Hist. of the RDG’s 4-6-2 Steam Locomotives |
|
2002 |
3&4 |
Buy Now |
Double Issue:
• Hist.
of Grace MinePart 1 |
|
2003 |
1 |
Buy Now |
• 1940s-era railfanning
• Montoursville
wreck |
|
2003 |
2,3&4 |
Buy Now |
Triple Issue
•History
of 16th Street Junction, Philadelphia |
|
2004 |
1&2 |
SOLD OUT |
Double Issue:
• Hist. of Grace MinePart 2 |
|
2004 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• Laureldale and the Low Grade
• Letters
from 1875 |
• Train-Trolley Collisions in the 1940s |
|
2004 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• Quinter's Bridge Wreck
• History
of Quinter's Bridge |
• Reading Terminal Coach Cleaners |
|
2005 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
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 |
Buy Now |
Double Issue:
•
Valley Forge Scenic Railroad |
|
2006 |
1 |
Buy Now |
|
2006 |
2 |
Buy Now |
• Tonnage Freight Trains
• Reading on the
Reading |
• Milk Train Circular - 1883 |
|
2006 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• Wernersville Wreck of 1942
• Rembrance
of the Reading |
• World War II Defense Plants |
|
2006 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• Pawnee-class Locomotives |
• Newberry Fast Freight |
|
2007 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
Double Issue:
• Boy Scout Jamborees at Valley Forge |
2007 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• "F-Car" ore
hoppers
• Lebanon ore concentrator |
|
2007 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• 150 Years on the Reading's
Bethlehem Branch |
2008 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
Double Issue:
• Reading Railroad Passenger Trains |
2008 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• Gardening on the Reading
• Reading RDCs
• Next Station - Phoenixville |
2008 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• 1908 P&R Veteran's Association Trip to
Eagles Mere
• NP-10 Wreck at Barnesville
• Career of H.S. Keppelman |
2009 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
• Grace Mine - Part 3 – Search for an Ore Car
|
2009 |
3 |
Buy Now |
• Catawissa Branch Trestles
• Sleeping Car Ottawa |
2009 |
4 |
Buy Now |
• Iron Horse Rambles Part I – 1959
|
2010 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
• Rocklyn Collision of 1963
|
2010 |
3&4 |
Buy Now |
• Iron Horse Rambles Part II – 1960
• Rocklyn Station History
|
2011 |
1&2 |
Buy Now |
• Reading Locomotive Shops |
2011 |
3&4 |
Buy Now |
• Iron Horse Rambles Part III – Fall 1960 |
2012 |
3 |
|
• Jim Holton Paintings
• On The Road With Train #5 |
Index compiled by Rick Bates, Publications chair.