Jane’s World Railways 1991-92 by Geoffrey Freeman Allen

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Jane’s World Railways 1991-92 by Geoffrey Freeman Allen
 
Janes World Railways 1991-92 by Geoffrey Freeman Allen
Hard Cover
798 pages
Copyright 1991
CONTENTS
FOREWORD  [59]
MANUFACTURERS
Locomotives  3
Powered passenger vehicles  53
Diesel engines and transmission systems  109
Electric traction equipment  133
Non-powered passenger vehicles  147
Passenger coach equipment  163
Freight vehicles  177
Brakes and drawgear  201
Bogies and suspensions, wheels and axles  215
Bearings  227
Signalling and telecommunications  231
Passenger information systems  251
Automatic fare systems  257
Fixed electrification equipment  265
Permanent way equipment  275
Freight yard and terminal equipment  307
Workshop, repair and maintenance equipment  319
PRIVATE FREIGHT CAR LEASING COMPANIES  327
INTERNATIONAL RAIL SERVICES IN EUROPE  333
INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY ASSOCIATIONS AND AGENCIES  337
CONSULTANCY SERVICES  345
RAILWAY SYSTEMS
Afghanistan  374
Albania  374
Algeria  374
Angola  377
Argentina  378
Australia  379
Austria  400
Bangladesh  408
Belgium  409
Benin  415
Bolivia  416
Botswana  417
Brazil  418
Bulgaria 427
Burkina Faso  428
Cameroon  428
Canada  429
Chile  444
China, People's Republic  446
Colombia  450
Congo  451
Costa Rica  452
Cuba  453
Czechoslovakia  454
Denmark  457
Dominican Republic  461
Ecuador  461
Egypt  462
El Salvador  463
Ethiopia  464
Finland  464
France  468
Gabon  481
Germany  482
Ghana  499
Greece  500
Guatemala  502
Guinea  502
Honduras  502
Hong Kong  503
Hungary  505
India  508
Indonesia  519
Iran  522
Iraq  523
Ireland  524
Israel  527
Italy  528
Ivory Coast  542
Jamaica  542
Japan  543
Jordan  571
Kampuchea  572
Kenya  572
Korea, Democratic People's Republic  574
Korea, Republic  574
Lebanon  577
Liberia  577
Libya  578
Luxembourg  578
Madagascar  580
Malawi  581
Malaysia  582
Mali  584
Mauritania  584
Mexico  585
Mongolia  587
Morocco  587
Mozambique  588
Myanmar  589
Namibia  590
Nepal  590
Netherlands  591
New Zealand  595
Nicaragua  596
Nigeria  597
Norway  598
Pakistan  601
Panama  604
Paraguay  604
Peru  605
Philippines  606
Poland  607
Portugal  611
Romania  614
Saudi Arabia  615
Senegal  616
South Africa  616
Spain  622
Sri Lanka  631
Sudan  633
Swaziland  634
Sweden  634
Switzerland  640
Syria  662
Taiwan  662
Tanzania  664
Thailand  666
Togo  669
Tunisia  670
Turkey  671
Uganda  674
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics  675
United Kingdom  680
United States of America  690
Uruguay  733
Venezuela  734
Viet-Nam  734
Yugoslavia  735
Zaire  737
Zambia  738
Zimbabwe  739
RAPID TRANSIT AND UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS 743
INDEX  785
POWERED PASSENGER VEHICLES
ARGENTINA
Materfer   84
AUSTRALIA
ABB    54
Goninan    75
Walkers    107
AUSTRIA
ABB   54
BRW   62
Jenbacher    78
SGP    96
BELGIUM
ACEC Transport   56
BN    59
BRAZIL
Cobrasma  64
Engesa-FNV  67
Mafersa  83
Santa Matilde  94
Villares  106
CANADA
Bombardier  60
UTDC 105
CHINA
Changchun Railway Works  64
China National Railway Corporation  64
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Czechoslovak Wagon Works 64
Strojexport  100
DENMARK
ABB Scandia A/S 55
Frichs  70
EGYPT
SEMAF  95
FINLAND
Transtech  104
FRANCE
ANF Industrie  57
CFD  63
De Dietrich  65
GEC Alsthom  72
Matra Transport  85
Soul 100
GERMANY
ABB  54
Duewag  66
Ferrostaal  68
LEW 81
Linke-Hofmann-Busch 82
MAN GHH  83
MBB  86
Newag  90
Sch 95
Siemens  96
Talbot  101
Transrapid International  103
VAW  106
HUNGARY
Ganz Ansaldo  71
Ganz-Hunslet  71
INDIA
ICF  78
Jessop  78
PEC  92
INDONESIA
INKA  78
ITALY
Ansaldo Trasporti  58
Breda  61
Casaralta  63
Ferrosud  68
Fiat  68
Firema  69
Gleismac  75
Imesi  78
OMS  92
Reggiane  93
Socimi  99
SOFER 99
JAPAN
Aina Koki  56
Fuji  70
Fuji Car  70
Hitachi  75
Kawasaki 78
Kinki Sharyo  79
Mitsubishi Electric  87
Niigata  90
Nippon Sharyo  90
Tokyu  101
Toshiba  103
KOREA
Daewoo  64
Hyundai  77
Korea Shipbuilding & Engineering  81
NORWAY
Stremmens  101
POLAND
Cegielski  63
Kolmex  81
Konstal  81
Pafawag     92
PORTUGAL
Sorefame  99
ROMANIA
FAUR  67
Mecanoexportimport  86
SOUTH AFRICA
RSD  94
Union Carriage  105
SPAIN
ATEINSA 59
Babcock & Wilcox  59
CAF 63
Meinfesa  86
MTM 89
SWEDEN
ABB Traction  56
ABB Kalmar  55
SWITZERLAND
ABB  54
Groupement  75
Schindler  94
SLM  97
VeVeY 106
Von Roll  106
USSR
Energomachexport  67
Mytischy  90
Riga  93
UK
Alexander 56
BREL  61
Hunslet-Barclay  77
Hunslet TPL  77
Metro-Cammell  87
RFS 93
Wickham  107
USA
AEG Westinghouse  56
Morrison-Knudsen  88
YUGOSLAVIA
Duro Dakovid  67
GOSA  75
ZIMBABWE
More Wear  88
NON-POWERED PASSENGER VEHICLES
ARGENTINA
Materfer 157
AUSTRALIA
ABB   148
Gonian  155
AUSTRIA
Jenbacher   156
SGP   160
BELGIUM
BN   150
BRAZIL
CCC   152
Cobrasma   153
Engesa-FNV   154
CANADA
Alcan    148
Bombardier  150
UTDC 162
CHINA
Changchun Railway Works  152
China National Railway Corporation  153
Pu Zhen  158
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Czechoslovak Wagon Works 153
Strojexport  161
DENMARK
ABB Scandia A/S  148
EGYPT
SEMAF  160
FINLAND
Transtech 161
FRANCE
ANF-Industrie  148
De Dietrich  154
GEC Alsthom  155
Soul 161
GERMANY
ABB  148
AEG-Westinghouse  148, 157
Ammendorf  148
Bautzen  150
Bremer  152
Ferrostaal  154
G 156
MAN GHH  157
Siemens  160
Talbot  161
VAW  162
HUNGARY
Ganz-Hanslet  155
Hungarian Railway Carriage  156
INDIA
BEML  150
ICF  156
Jessop  156
PEC 158
ITALY
Breda  151
Casaralta  152
CFC 152
Costamasnaga  153
Ferrosud  154
Fiat  154
Firema  154
Gallinari  155
Imesi  156
Keller  156
OFV  158
OMS  158
Reggiane  158
SGI  160
Socimi  160
Soler  160
JAPAN
Alna Koka  148
Fuji Car  155
Fuji Heavy Industries  155
Kawasaki  156
Kinki Sharyo  156
Nippon Sharyo  158
Tokyu  161
KOREA
Daewoo  153
Hyundai     156 Korea Shipbuilding & Engineering  157
MEXICO
Concarril  153
MOROCCO
SCIF     159
NORWAY
ABB  148
Stremmens 161
PAKISTAN
Pakistan Railway Carriage  158
POLAND
Cegielski  152
Kolmex  156
Pafawag  158
PORTUGAL
Sorefame  160
ROMANIA
Astra  148
Mecanoexportimport  157
Turnu-Severin  162
SOUTH AFRICA
Union Carriage  162
SPAIN
ATEINSA  150
Babcock & Wilcox  150
CAF 152
Meinfesa  158
MTM 158
Tafesa  161
SWEDEN
ABB Kalmar  148
SWITZERLAND
Schindler  159
UK
BREL  151
GEC Alsthom  155
Hunslet TPL  156
RFS  159
USA
Miner Railcar Services  158
RPS  159
YUGOSLAVIA
Duro Dakovi 154
GOSA  156
PASSENGER COACH EQUIPMENT
ARGENTINA SIAM 172
AUSTRALIA
SMC  172
Stone McColl  173
AUSTRIA
IFE  168
BELGIUM
ACEC  164
Manta  169
BRAZIL
Fresinbra  167
DENMARK
Semco  172
FINLAND
EKE Electronics  166
NIF  170
FRANCE
AIF  164
Carrier KhBac  165
Compin  165
Faiveley  166
Ferrat  167
Halais  167
Klein  169
Sable  171
SAFT  171
Sofanor  173
GERMANY
ABB  164
AEG Westinghouse  164
Belz  165
FahrzeugausrBerlin  166
GEZ 167
Krupp Mak  169
Kuckuck  169
Luwa  169
Phoenix  171
Pintsch Bamag  171
Schaltbau  171
Siemens  172
HUNGARY
Kismotor G 169
Nikex  170
INDIA
Central Engineering  165
Cimmco  165
Stone India  173
ITALY
Socimi  173
JAPAN
Alna Koki  164
Hitachi  168
Narita  170
Nippon Air Brake  170
Nippon Signal  171
Toshiba  174
Toyo Denki  174
Yusoki Kogyo  175
NETHERLANDS
Tebel  173
SOUTH AFRICA
Conbrako  166
Wispeco  175
SPAIN
Dimetal  166
Meinfesa  169
Stone Ib 173
SWEDEN
EVAC  166
SWITZERLAND
Ebo     166
SIG  172
UK
Bayham  165
Beclawat/Bode  165
BREL  165
Deans Powered Doors  166
Henshall  168
Howden Sirocco  168
Hydrovane  168
Insulation Equipments  168
Kidde-Graviner  168
KV  169
Merrychef  169
Middleton  170
Permali  171
SMC  173
Stone International  173
Stuart Turner  173
Thorn Lighting  174
Triplex  174
Westinghouse Brake & Signal  175
Young  175
USA
Adams & Westlake  164
AEG Westinghouse  164
Delaware Car  166
Ellcon National  166
Microphor  169
Monogram Sanitation  170
Research Products/Blankenship  171
Stone Nycal  173
Stone Safety  173
Vapor Mark IV  174
FREIGHT VEHICLES
ARGENTINA
AFNE 178
Bautista Buriasco 179
Betran Hnos  179
Callegari  181
Cometarsa  182
Comsal  182
Ptah-Vazquez Iglesias  192
AUSTRALIA
ABB  178
Centurion  181
Gemco  185
Goninan  185
Perry  191
AUSTRIA
Jenbacher  187
SGP  194
BELGIUM
BN  179
BREC  180
BRAZIL
CCC  181
Cobrasma  182
Engesa-FNV  185
Mafersa  188
Santa Matilde  194
Soma  195
CANADA
Alcan  179
Hawker Siddeley  186
National Steel Car  190
Procor  192
CHINA
Chian An Rolling Stock  182
China National Railway Corporation  182
Dalian Locomotive  183
Oiqihar  193
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Czechoslovak Wagon Works 183
Strojexport  196
DENMARK
ABB   178
EGYPT
SEMAF  194
FRANCE
ABRF  178
AFR 178
Orval  191
Remoter 193
SFC-Daval  194
SNAV 195
Soul 195
FINLAND
Transtech  198
GERMANY
Badische Waggonfabrik  179
Bremer  181
BWR  181
Dessau  184
DWA 184
Ferrostaal  185
Graaf  186
Niesky  190
O&K  191
Talbot  196
VAW  199
HUNGARY
Hungarian Railway Carriage  187
INDIA
Bharat Wagon & Engineering  179
Braithwaite  179
Surn Standard  181
Cimmco International  182
HDC  186
KT Steel  188
PEC  191
INDONESIA
INKA  187
IRELAND
Liebherr  188
ITALY
Casaralta  181
CEFF  181
CFC  182
Costamasnaga  182
Ferrosud  185
Fiat  185
Firema  185
Imesi  187
Keller  187
OFV  191
OMS  191
Reggiane 193
SGI  194
Starter 195
JAPAN
Alna Koki  179
Fuji Car  185
Kawasaki  187
Kinki Sharyo  187
Nippon Sharyo  190
Wakamatsu Sharyo  200
KOREA
Daewoo  183
Hyundai  187
Korea Shipbuilding & Engineering  188
MEXICO
CNCFSA  182
Concarril  182
MOROCCO
SCIF  194
MOZAMBIQUE
Cometal  182
NETHERLANDS
Nelcon  190
NEW ZEALAND
Price  192
NORWAY
Finsam  185
Strommens  196
PAKISTAN
Pakistan Railways Carriage  191
POLAND
Kolmex  187
Konstal  188
Zastal  200
PORTUGAL
Metalsines  189
ROMANIA
Astra  179
Mecanoexportimport  189
SOUTH AFRICA
RSD  194
SPAIN
Babcock & Wilcox  179
CAF  181
CAT  181
Herederos de Ramon Mugica  186
Intamodal-Eimar  187
Meinfesa  189
MTM 189
Tafesa  196
SWEDEN
ABB  178
Lagab  188
SWITZERLAND
Cattaneo  181
Schindler  194
Stag  195
Tuchschmid  199
USSR
Altai  179
Energomachexport  184
UK
Bombardier Prorail  179
BREL  181
Davis  183
Howden  187
Oleo  191
Powell Duffryn Standard  191
Procor Engineering  192
RFS Engineering  193
Ray Smith  195
Trailer Train  197
USA
ACF 178
Amherst  179
Anbel  179
Bethlehem Steel  179
Briggs & Turivas  181
Difco  184
Dorsey  184
The Gregg Company  186
Gunderson  186
Kilo-Wate  187
Letourneau  188
Miner Railcar  189
Portec  191
RoadRailer  193
SM-Strick RailTrailer  195
Strick  195
Taylor  197
Thrall  197
Trailer-Rail  197
Transcisco Industries Inc  198
Transcisco Rail Services Co  198
Transit America  198
Trinity Industries  198
Union Tank 199
YUGOSLAVIA
Bratstvo 180
GO$A  185
Kraljevo  188
ZIMBABWE
More Wear  189
BRAKES AND DRAWGEAR
BRAKES AND DRAWGEAR
ARGENTINA
SIAM 211
SKF Argentina 211
AUSTRALIA
Bradken  202
Comsteel  203
SMC  211
AUSTRIA
Stabeg  212
BELGIUM
Buhlmann  203
BRAZIL
Cobrasma  203
Cobreq  203
Suecobras  212
FINLAND
Saalasti  209
FRANCE
Couplomatic  204
Domange-Jarret  204
Forges de Fresnes  205
Paulstra Hutchinson  209
Reservoir, Le  209
Sambre et Meuse  211
SEE  211
Valen  213
GERMANY
BBW 202
BSI  202
Jurid  205
Knorr-Bremse  205
Newag  208
Ringfeder  209
Scharfenberg  211
Textar  212
WABCO Westinghouse  213
INDIA
Bharat  202
Cimmco International  203
Greysham  205
Stone  212
ITALY
Poli  209
Socimi  211
JAPAN
Mitsubishi  207
NABCO  208
Nippon Signal  208
Sumitomo  212
Tokyu Car 212
Ueda  213
MEXICO
Miner y Mendez 207
NETHERLANDS
SAB WABCO  209
POLAND
Kolmex  206
PORTUGAL
LDA  206
ROMANIA
FAU R  205
Uzinexportimport  213
SOUTH AFRICA
Conbrako  204
Matrix  207
SPAIN
Dimetal  204
Frenos Calefaccion y Se 205
Meinf esa  207
SWITZERLAND
OKE  208
SWEDEN
Dellner Couplers  204
USSR
Energomachexport  204
UK
Atlas Copco  202
Avon  202
Davies and Metcalfe  204
Gresham and Craven  205
Hydrovane  205
Litton  206
Lloyd  207
Mintex Don  207, 212
Oleo  209
RFS Engineering  209
SAB WABCO  210
TBL  212
Westinghouse Brakes  213
USA
ABC  202
Amsted  202
ASF  202
Buckeye  203
Buffalo Brake Beam  203
Cardwell Westinghouse  203
Cobra Brake Shoes  203
Ellcon-National  204
FMI  205
Graham-White  205
Griffin  205
Miner  207
Multi-Service Supply  208
NYAB  208
Purdy  209
Triax-Davis  213
WABCO 213
YUGOSLAVIA
Fabrika Vagona Kraljevo  204
MZ Tito-Skopje  208
FOREWORD
The 12 European Transport Ministers and the EC Commission have been busy drafting new Single Market scenarios for the Continent's railways. The overall objective, enlargement of the train's role in international passenger and freight movement, is admirable. But the odds against realisation in full are weighty.
Consider the agreements reached by the European Conference of Transport Ministers in mid-1991. The 12 governments have been bidden to take steps by July 1992 to confer on their railways guaranteed financial and administrative independence. The railways' accumulated debt must be reduced to levels allowing effective financial management thereafter. From the same mid-1992 date the railways must separate their infra-structure and operational accounting. And each government must adopt the French practice of concluding term-based contracts covering each railway's public service obligations.
Fine. But in the private sector financial independence means that an enterprise invests as it sees commercially fit, and exercises its own judgement as to when and how much to borrow for the purpose. That all 12 railways will be granted such freedom is hard to believe. Assuming, that is, the independence of financial judgement is to apply to development of infrastructure as well as mobile and operational assets.
But maybe more than paperwork is foreseen in the segregation of the railways' infrastructure and commercial accounts. A majority of the 12 countries already finance in part or in full the upkeep of their national rail infrastructure. So they should. The modern railway is as essential a component of the national transport system as its motorways. So long as the degree of state support varies, though, there is a distortion in the pricing of many international rail movements by comparison with throughout road movement.
The ideal is 100 per cent support. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and some Scandinavian countries that is applied also to capital infrastructure projects. Investment in rail infra-structure then becomes a component of national transport development. It is evaluated on a basis comparable to that of highway schemes, which is not the case in some EC countries. A common approach to state planning and financing of the railways' fixed assets must surely simplify EC judgement of whether and where to aid internationally desirable infrastructure development.
Much has been made of the Ministers' Luxembourg agreement to a right of access to the whole EC rail system from the start of 1993. It is to apply not only to the national railways, but to external entrepreneurs, whether national or international. But does this warrent some commentators' acclamation of a new dawn?
Will the freight chiefs of railway A be free to descend on the HQ of railway B and drive timetable paths as they see fit for their through services to railway C? If not, how has Luxembourg changed the inter-railway negotiation needed to set up existing cross-border intermodal and wagonload systems? And what has it done to eliminate inter-city discrepancies in tariff scaling, permissible loading and vehicle characteristics, etc? These are some of the major brakes curbing international freight traffic expansion.
As for private enterprise access, the first question is one of definition. British free marketeers always cite as a passenger service model the stratospherically-priced land cruise trains, such as the Venice Simplon-Orient Express. Congratulations to the entrepreneurs who have identified a leisure market prepared to pay through the nose for these exercises in nostalgia. And make them remunerative. But these luxury trains are totally irrelevant to the extraordinary belief of some editorialists that private enterprise can magically solve the insoluble; profitable provision at no extra customer cost of the extra capacity for seated comfort of all peak-hour commuters.
In the freight sector the British media's prototype is the unit stone trains of the West Country stone quarrying companies Foster Yeoman and ARC. But there is only one difference between these and all the other single-client, siding-to-siding freight trains run by BR's Trainload Freight. The locomotives as well as the wagons are owned by the customer. At work the locomotives are BR-crewed and BR-maintained (the latter, granted, on the customer's premises). Foster Yeoman's distinction is the determination with which the company pressed BR to agree that it be allowed to prove a case at its own expense. This was that diesel haulage of heavy bulk commodity trains demanded locomotives purpose-designed and proven for the job, and dedicated to it, not all-purpose, common-user freight locomotives. BR took on board the high-productivity results subsequently obtained with Foster Yeoman's imported GM-EMD machines. Assignment of BR's own traction to specific and appropriate traffics, and BR's investment in its own Class 60 heavy-haul diesels, are directly traceable to Foster Yeoman's enterprise.
One trade press journal now sees post-1992 private train operators not merely powering but crewing their own trains. And thereby, unencumbered by existing railway union agreements, able to revive declining wagonload traffic.
Never mind the likelihood of railway unions conceding dilution of their crafts. Will individual governments be prepared to see responsibilities for train operating safety diffused? Remember, too, that international traffic was the primary concern at Luxembourg, as it is of the most insistent open-tracks evangelist, EC Transport Commissioner Karel Van Miert. Is it anticipated that private operators will invest in multi-voltage traction? Or maintain locomotive studs as well as local train crews in each country that their trains traverse? Suppose a railway finds that a private operator is threatening to cream off its high-value traffic and reduce the productivity of its own assets. Whereupon the railway finds mysterious difficulty in contriving acceptable timetable paths for the competitor. Who will arbitrate?
As for the belief that private enterprise could be the saviour of wagonload traffic, the converse is the more likely. Short of divine revelation, no new method of cutting local trip working and train marshalling costs is imaginable. Private assumption of the most promising business - for instance, some or all of German Railways' overnight-transit Intercargo traffic - would only worsen the economics of the rest. That would prompt more contraction. On the other hand, the private sector certainly has potential to bolster international wagonload traffic on key arteries. It could deploy its local marketing resources and expertise to build depot-to-depot traffic of regularly scheduled charter train proportions. Of that the well-loaded trains run for Mahe between Denmark and Paris are an outstanding example.
What is needed is purposeful logistical partnership between major private-sector freight companies and the railways, especially in intermodal development. Internecine competition within the rail mode as well as by rail against rival modes would be deplorable.
In short, open tracks theory too blithely discounts the essential difference between rail and highway: fixed as opposed to free-for-all vehicle pathing. To work as politically conceived, open tracks demand not only separate management of infrastructure and its development, as in Sweden, but also there must be an independent, dispassionate manager of the infrastructure's use.
The EC railways have some way to go to perfect seamless cross-border freight transportation. The same goes for orchestration of swift pricing and operational responses to market opportunities. But there have been recent encouragements. Take, for instance, the massive increase of Germano-Italian intermodal traffic over the Brenner Pass, following the Austrian Federal's smart reaction to its government's imposition of curbs on over-the-highway freight transits. Also worth mention is German auto manufacturer BMW's faith in rail for 80 per cent of its imports from its Italian sub-contractors: and in reverse, for all components and two-thirds of its completed cars for the Italian market.
Would that the Transport Ministers had devoted more of their time to considering how at least a measure of supranational pricing, marketing and operational management could be applied to key international rail freight axes. And to what could be done to harmonise their railways' varying conditions of rail freight movement. Rail freight's potential for healthy growth in the Single Market lies in new long-haul trainload opportunities. There could, for instance, be extended scope for the sort of high asset-productivity deal lately struck in Germany by Ford, BMW and the DB. This has auto-carrier trains heading from Munich to the Darea with new BMW cars for Ruhr and Benelux distributors, then returning to Munich bearing new cars from Ford's Cologne plant for south German dealers.
Many international traffic opportunities could be squandered if international trains, privately run or not, must still run a gauntlet of successive operating managements' foibles. While at the same time the only constraint on end-to-end management of over-the-highway freight within the Community - Swiss and Austrian deterrence of transalpine transits apart - is subservience to such frontier formalities as survive.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The extensive contribution made by David Rider in compiling the up-to-date text for the Manufacturers and Consultancy Services sections of the current edition has been much appreciated. Input of information and photographic material from all other contributors has been, as always, invaluable. Thanks must also go to the production, editorial and typesetting staff involved in the publication of the book.
G FREEMAN ALLEN                                                                                                                        August 1991

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