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Silver Leaf Rapid Transit
Silver Leaf provided regular mailing to subscribers, who
paid an annual fee. The mailings included product announcements,
premium items and Special Reports, containing
product and other news issued between November 1964 and December
1965. In August 1966, Special Reports were replaced
by Switchtower, an 8-page 5.5 x 8.5 in. brochure.
Switchtower 2. Fall 1966. Free for subscribers. 4 pp. 5.5 x 8.5"..
Announced the never published Fall 1966 issue of The Third Rail, which
was to have featured an article on the CTA, and an article on the BMT West End
Line in steam days, the latter of which was published in the Third Rail Press
issue #3 of The Third Rail
in 1975. The cover doesn't have a switchtower, but does
have a church tower with Santa piloting a BMT Triplex. Return to Silver Leaf
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Switchtower
Switchtower 1. August 1966. Free for subscribers. 4 pp. 5.5 x
8.5".Announced The Third Rail. The
pictured switchtower was at the junction of the BMT's
Culver and 5th/3rd Avenue L's. The view is looking east
from 36th Street station.
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