I have recently heard that some of the Prince books may be reissued soon. Any validity to this ?

-- Greg Hodges (ghodges@smpsfa.com), September 26, 1999

Answers

The ACL never gets the proper respect. The ad in Railfan offers a Prince book titled "Atlantic Coast Railroad"!

-- Whit Joyner (vivnwhit@mindspring.com), September 29, 1999.

The ACL & SAL HS will be selling the ACL and SAL Prince reprints at a discount. Indiana Univ. plans to have both published in time for our Jacksonville meeting this coming February 18-20, and they will be available by mail as well of course.

-- Larry Goolsby (LGoolsby@aphsa.org), September 28, 1999.

Indiana University Press,according to their Railroads specific catalog, will be reprinting the entire 10 volume Prince set. The first three will be ACL, SAL and L&N (68 revised edition). I called and the ACL book is the only one currently in their computer, due out in Spring 2000 with a price of $49.95. Others should be around the same cost. For those who would like further information, their address is 601 North morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404-3797. Their phone number is 1-800-842-6796 or fax 1-812-855-7931. Reprints normally drop the value of original copies, but don't look for drastic discounts, at least not yet anyway.

-- Larry K. Neal, Jr. (lkneal@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us), September 27, 1999.

Yesm it is true. I have been in contact with Indiana University Press, and they have confirmed that they will be re-printing the ACL and SAL books in Spring 2000. That's probably why there's been so many for sale at shows lately!

-- Craig Dooley (morgul@att.net), September 26, 1999.