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Last Train To Paradise by Les Standiford Publisher Comments Now in paperback, "Last Train to Paradise" is acclaimed novelist Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White Publisher Comments This original, deeply researched history shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gravity, Steam and Steel: An Illustrated Railway History of Rogers Pass by Graeme Pole Publisher Comments BC Historical Federation Writing Awards 2009 Honourable Mention Canadian Rockies Award shortlist, 2009 Steep grades, extreme climate, avalanche hazard, tunnels, trestles, and bridges-all in a wilderness setting-Rogers Pass packs a great deal of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad (Railroads Past and Present) by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. Publisher Comments Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., tells the story of one of the most infamous railroad construction projects of the late 19th century. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line... (read more) Your price: $42.00 New - Hardcover
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The Life and Legend of Jay Gould by Maury Klein Publisher Comments He was, for Joseph Pulitzer, one of the most sinister figures that have ever flitted bat-like across the vision of the American people. According to the New York Times, the work of reform is but half done... when people claiming to be respectable are not... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Passenger Trains: WWII to Amtrak by Patrick C. Dorin Publisher Comments Passenger Trains played an important role in the growth of traveling across America or to the nearest city—the height of its service after WWII until the start up of Amtrak. This book provides railroad hobbyists, historians, museum operators, and... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rails to the North Star: A Minnesota Railroad Atlas (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books) by Richard S Prosser Publisher Comments “Railroads were the country’s first big business providing the nation’s vital cardiovascular system, setting the tempo of life everywhere. All of it was reflected locally. . . . Rails to the North Star is a masterful catalog of data, a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pennsylvania Railroad (MBI Railroad Color History) by Mike Schafer Publisher Comments From humble beginnings in the 1800s, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew into a railroad that Fortune magazine called “a nation unto itself.” Rail historians Mike Schafer and Brian Solomon provide a colorful and nostalgic look back at the Pennsy... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $23.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty: Navajos, Hozho, and Track Work by Jay Youngdahl Publisher Comments For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives. Jay Youngdahl, an... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Trains by Thomas Curtis Clarke Publisher Comments The American Railway is an exciting look at the railroad industry in the 1880's and how it developed as the business boomed. Discover detailed texts about how railroads were built, the types of railways, the lives of railway workers, the various ways the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Union Pacific: Volume I, 1862-1893 by Maury Klein Publisher Comments The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as Americas 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Kentucky and the Illinois Central Railroad (Images of Rail) by Clifford J. Downey Publisher Comments The Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR) operated approximately 600 miles of mainline track throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky, stretching from the Mississippi River to the central part of the state. In addition to Louisville, the state's largest city... (read more) Your price: $21.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West by David Haward Bain Publisher Comments In the summer of 2000, David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. From Omaha to San Francisco, Bain and his family retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad. Following... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Some Trains in America by Andrew Cross Synopsis This powerful collection of photographs celebrates American trains, railroad stations, andlandscapes. Presented in a beautifully designed horizontal format book, these photographs offer a truly original depiction of America's romance with its frontier... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890 by George Roger Taylor Publisher Comments Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. The American Railroad Network, 1861... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Railroads of Rensselaer (Images of America) by Ernie Mann Publisher Comments Rensselaer was once a classic American railroad town, and like most cities and towns of its type, it was part of an important junction of several destinations. From the 1840s to today, trains have rolled to the four principal compass points from town... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $15.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Great American Rail Journeys by John Grant Publisher Comments Great American Rail Journeys takes you on location to eight of North America's most scenic and historically rich landscapes. Each of the rail adventures profiled in this volume - a counterpart to the highly praised public television programs - celebrates... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of North American Rail PB by Christopher Chant Publisher Comments Our landscape format Encyclopedia series in the 12 x 9 1/4 trim size have been so popular that we have created a more portable format for those who are interested in a smaller paperback edition. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full color. A great... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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