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Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks by Bill Gove Publisher Comments One of the most definitive history books on the spider web of logging railroads that opened up the Adirondacks to large scale timber harvesting.... (read more) List Price $39.96 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Union Pacific: 1862-1893 by Maury Klein Publisher Comments The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry today. The laying of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad by Maury Klein Publisher Comments " After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension,... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Tootin' Louie: A History of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway by Donovan L. Hofsommer Publisher Comments The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (M&StL), affectionately known as the Tootin' Louie, was founded in 1870 to serve a Minneapolis business community threatened by powerful railway interests emerging from both Chicago and Milwaukee. Although its goal of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation by Alfred Runte Publisher Comments What did America lose with the decline of the passenger train? Much more than most Americans think. The greatest loss is the alliance between technology and the land, according to public historian Alfred Runte. Once abandoning railroads would have been... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Social History of Mexico's Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests by Teresa Miriam Van Hoy Publisher Comments Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico, which promoted rapid economic growth that greatly benefited elites but also heavily impacted rural and provincial Mexican residents in... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $36.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the Construction of the Baghdad Railway by Jonathan S. McMurray Publisher Comments As the first study to document the Baghdad Railway construction, rather than the rhetoric surrounding it, this work challenges nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline--scholarship that has too often hinged on the alleged... (read more) List Price $110.95 Your price: $98.47 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Early Steam Locomotive by Robert Badella Publisher Comments This story begins with James Watt the inventor who voluntarily created a separate condenser for steam engines. However it had been Richard Trevithick of England who was solely responsible for producing high-pressure steam through a smokestack. The... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Baldwin Locomotives by Brian Solomon Publisher Comments Philadelphia-based Baldwin began designing and building steam locomotives in the 1830s and gave the U.S. many of its most significant and famous types of steam,and diesel-electric motive power. This history of Baldwin is illustrated with a large... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $35.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Modern Diesel Locomotives by Hans Halberstadt Publisher Comments Exceptional photography captures modern diesel locomotives hard at work moving trains on tracks everywhere from California to Boston. Major railroads are brought to life including the Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Conrail, Southern Pacific, and Burlington... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Caboose by Brian Solomon Publisher Comments The image of a little red caboose trundling along behind a long freight train is a classic slice of Americana. With the help of nearly 300 marvelous modern and historical images depicting cabooses of all colors, this collection traces the development of... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $17.74 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol Limited and National Limited by Joe Welsh Publisher Comments In 1923 the Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol Limited started its travels between Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Two years later the B&O's National Limited linked the nations capital to St. Louis. Almost at once the two lines became household names... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $32.79 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force by Albro Martin Publisher Comments Chronicles the history of the railroads, emphasizes their significance in the development of the United States, and defends their enduring importance to American economic life.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $36.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Intermodal Railroading by Brian Solomon Publisher Comments This richly illustrated history chronicles one of the most revolutionary developments in freight railroading during the twentieth century: intermodal shipping, or the use of containers to move cargo between trains, trucks, and oceangoing vessels. It was... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $32.79 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Streetcars of New Orleans by Louis C. Hennick Publisher Comments This extensively illustrated,240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcartransportation in the city of New Orleans.This reprint of a 1965 volume,written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the completework on... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Streetcars of New Orleans: 1964-Present by Jr. Earl W. Hampton Publisher Comments In 1964, New Orleans began removing its Canal Street streetcars to make way for the "more progressive" buses. In 1988, the Riverfront streetcars began rolling, and in 2004 streetcars made a triumphant return to Canal Street. This concise history... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Amazing & Extraordinary Railway Facts by Julian Holland Publisher Comments What is the story behind the Mallard's speed record?Why did Brunel's atmospheric South Devon Railway fail?Who were the most famous locomotive engineers and designers?How did a locomotive manage to reach the summit of Snowdon Mountain in the 19th century... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881 by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments In 1871, a tiny nation, just four years old — it's population well below the 4 million mark — determined that it would build the world's longest railroad across empty country, much of it unexplored. This decision — bold to the point of recklessness... (read more) Your price: $18.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Courage and Conflict by Ian Kenneally Publisher Comments Dispossessed and oppressed for so long, it is no surprise that many Irish ended up fighting in other people's wars. For many, a career as a soldier was the last hope for a better life. Courage and Conflict is based around extraordinary people and events,... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $12.02 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Frontier Link with the World: The Upson County Railroad by David E. Paterson Publisher Comments A Frontier Link with the World is the history of one small company which operated a track sixteen miles long and served essentially one community. This company shared significant characteristics with its much larger neighbors, and therefore serves as a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $24.85 Google eBooks - Electronic
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