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Trolleys and Subways
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Electric Railway Dictionary
Electric Railway Dictionary
by Rodney Hitt
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If you are a fan of trolley cars, interurban streetcars and electric railroading, then The Electric Railway Dictionary is a book you need to have on your shelf This historic text is far more than just a dictionary, although it does contain over sixty... (read more)

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General
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by Gary Krist
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Centered on the astonishing spectacle of Americas deadliest avalanche, "The White Cascade" is the masterfully told story of a never-before-documented tragedy.... (read more)

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North America
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The American Railroad Passenger Car
The American Railroad Passenger Car
by John H White
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The American Railroad Passenger Car recaptures the lost, but not-too-distant past when 98 percent of all intercity travel in the United States was by rail. It documents in extraordinary detail the ingenuity and splendor of the classic trains as well as... (read more)

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World
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's... (read more)

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Model Railroads
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Gorgeous Garden Railways
Gorgeous Garden Railways
by Marc Horovitz
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This book features large portraits and informative text on garden railroad landscaping, trains, infrastructure, ponds and water features, and other landscape challenges. Marc Horovitz, editor of Garden Railways, and Pat Hayward, horticultural editor of... (read more)

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Oversized Books
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The Trans-Siberian Railway: Railways from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean
The Trans-Siberian Railway: Railways from Moscow to the Pacific Ocean
by Anne Meinhardt
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Some 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) of track and seven time zones Luxury trains and simple wagons, endless taiga, and the clearest lake in the world: a trip with the Trans-Siberian Railway promises many highlights. Anne and Olaf Meinhardt spent six... (read more)

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Pacific Northwest
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Railroads of the Columbia River Gorge (Images of Rail)
Railroads of the Columbia River Gorge (Images of Rail)
by D. C. Jesse Burkhardt
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Before the rails were up and running along the stunning Columbia River landscape of Oregon and Washington, 19th-century westward travelers faced treacherous conditions. Many emigrants perished before reaching Oregon Territory. Only recently have railways... (read more)

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Pictorials
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North American Railroad Bridges
North American Railroad Bridges
by Brian Solomon
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Few railroading scenes are as enduring as those that depict a freight or passenger train traversing river or roadway, creek or canyon, atop a sturdy structure specially engineered for the situation. In this marvelously illustrated work sure to appeal to... (read more)

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Electric and Street Railroads
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Transit Maps of the World
Transit Maps of the World
by Mark Ovenden
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Using glorious, colorful graphics, Ovenden traces the story of mass transit in this comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system around the world.... (read more)

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General
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Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
by Andrew Dow
Synopsis
Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and... (read more)

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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by Gary Krist
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You think you've got it bad trudging uphill in the snow every day to work and back? Just imagine you're stuck inside one of two trains trapped in the Cascade Mountains during a catastrophic blizzard... and then an avalanche hits! The only thing more... (read more)

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Rail Power (Gallery)
Rail Power (Gallery)
by Steve Barry
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For nearly two centuries, through vast upheavals and enormous change, railroads have remained crucial to North American transportation. And always setting the pace have been the mighty American locomotives in all their ever-evolving forms. This... (read more)

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