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Steam Locomotive Driver's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide to Preparing, Firing and Driving by Andrew Charman Publisher Comments A fully up-to-date publication, heavily illustrated with both photographs and drawings, detailing the complete procedures needed to handle a steam locomotive, written in a form that will not only prove an essential aid to those training to drive... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $35.95 New - Hardcover 
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On Railways Far Away (Railroads Past and Present) by William D. Middleton, Iii Publisher Comments In this lavishly illustrated memoir, William D. Middleton invites readers to climb aboard and share with him 60 years of railroad tourism around the globe. Middleton's award-winning photography has recorded events such as the final days of American Civil... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Classic American Locomotives: The 1909 Classic on Steam Locomotive Technology by Charles Mcshane Publisher Comments Anyone who has watched in anticipation as a powerful steam engine rolled into a station, belching iconic billows of black smoke, or heard the memorable blue note sound of a steam engine whistle will revel in Charles McShane's amazingly detailed... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mostly True: The West's Most Popular Hobo Graffiti Magazine by Bill Daniel Publisher Comments A companion piece to the author's documentary Who Is Bozo Texino?, this collection of railroad boxcar graffiti gives fascinating insight into vagabond culture. Filled with railroad nostalgia, freight-riding stories, historical oddities, and interviews... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rails Across the Prairies: The Railway Heritage of Canada's Prairie Provinces by Ron Brown Publisher Comments Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $29.99 New - Trade Paper
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British Railway Pictorial Southern Region Demus by Kevin Robertson Publisher Comments As with the provision of main-line diesel locomotives, where BR acquired classes with differing forms of transmission, so it was with the acquisition of diesel multiple-units, where, although the vast majority were fitted with mechanical transmission, a... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gwr Locomotives of the Edwardian Era by Peter Darke Publisher Comments With the final elimination of the broad gauge in the early 1890s, the Great Western Railway for the first time possessed a fleet of locomotives that was exclusively standard gauge. A number of classic locomotive designs emerged from both Wolverhampton... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line: A Photographic Portrait of America's Last Great Steam Railroad by Tony Reevy Publisher Comments O. Winston Link photographed the Norfolk and Western, the last major steam railroad in the United States, when it was converting its operations from steam to diesel in the 1950s. Links N&W project captured the industry at a moment of transition... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Railways of Britain: London South of the Thames by David Mccarthy Publisher Comments First published in 2003 and subsequently reprinted, Colonel Michael Cobb's two-volume atlas, The Railways of Great Britain, won plaudits from both readers and critics alike as it provided a comprehensive overview of the country's railways. However, it... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Railroads of Pennsylvania: 2nd Edition by Lorett Treese Publisher Comments Informative and very satisfying to read. --Library Journal For those of you who cannot get enough of railroad history, this book will brighten your day. --LivesteamCompletely revised and updated edition of this best-seller Regional histories of the great... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Swiss Railways in Colour by Philip Kelley Publisher Comments Philip Kelley has been recording Swiss railways in colour for several decades and in this exciting new title he tells the tale of Swiss Railways beautifully. The title is full of descriptive text along with a variety of colour illustrations.There is a... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Flying Scotsman Manual: An Insight Into Maintaining, Operating and Restoring the Legendary Steam Locomotive by Phil Atkins Synopsis The legendary ‘4472’ – better known as the Flying Scotsman – receives the famous Haynes Manual treatment with the full co-operation of the National Railway Museum. Here is a unique perspective on what is involved in maintaining... (read more) Available November 2013 Your price: $35.95 New - Hardcover
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Railroads of Meridian (Railroads Past and Present) by J. Parker Lamb Publisher Comments This generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the town's rail facilities in the 1850s through the current era of large-scale consolidation. Presently,... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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A Life on the Lines: A Railwayman's Album by Richard Hardy Publisher Comments From about 1944 until the early 1960s, Richard Hardy--author of The Railwayman's Pocket-Book--photographed life on the English and French railways with his Brownie 620 box camera. These unique, largely unpublished images constitute a fascinating and... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden Publisher Comments A gorgeously illustrated collection of the world's greatest railway maps and posters, historical and contemporary Transit Maps of the World was an extraordinary and unexpected success and is now a cult favorite. In his irresistible follow-up Mark Ovenden... (read more) Available October 30, 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America by Christian Wolmar Publisher Comments Since its birth in the mid-1800s, the railroad has been essential to the economic, political and cultural development of the United States. Since 1840, the United States has lead the world in railway mileage. The American railroads were bigger in every... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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Minnesota Railroads: A Photographic History, 1940-2012 by Steve Glischinski Publisher Comments “The Great Northern Railway, in the eventful year of 1941, met every requirement made of it as the Nation hurriedly prepared for war.” So Great Northern’s president spoke of the Minnesota railroad that transported the tanks and... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $50.25 New - Hardcover
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The History of North American Steam by Christopher Chant Publisher Comments This illustrated history of steam trains makes a great gift item for train enthusiasts and railroad historians. It covers steam locomotives from its origins, its expansion through to its eventual obsoletion. It also includes a chapter on... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Grand Central Terminal: 100 Years of a New York Landmark by Anthony W. Robins Publisher Comments Opened in February 1913, Grand Central Terminal—one of the countrys great architectural monuments—helped create Midtown Manhattan. Over the next century, it evolved into an unofficial town square for New York. Today, it sits astride... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Minneapolis and the Age of Railways by Don L. Hofsommer Publisher Comments With the recent revitalization of the Minneapolis Warehouse District and the surge in construction of condominiums and other buildings near the banks of the Mississippi, the landscape of the city seems to change almost daily. Not so long ago, however... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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