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All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s by Victoria E Dye Synopsis How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New Yorkcity Subway by Andrew Garn Publisher Comments October 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the largest underground transit network in the world. Love it or hate it, if you're a New Yorker, you can't live without it: 3.5 million people ride the rails every day. The subway is as much a symbol of New... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gandydancer's Children: A Railroad Memoir by Frank Wendell Call Publisher Comments Frank Wendell Call's delightful memoir focuses on the now-vanished lifestyle of Western railroad hands and their families who lived along the railroad tracks in the 1920s and 1930s.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Railway Photography by Brian Soloman Publisher Comments The building of the railroad was one of the greatest epics the United States has ever known! Capture the essence of the rails with this stunning photographic tribute to trains and railroading. Railway Photography features an impressive display from... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Terminal Tales by J Pete Hedgpeth Publisher Comments Terminal Tales are true stories about operations on the Rock Island Railroad near Chicago during the early 1960s and written by a former Trainmaster (the person in charge of seeing that the trains got out on time, with the cars in the proper order.) It... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Routledge Historical Atlas of American Railroads (Routledge Atlases of American History) by John Stover Synopsis With 50 full-colour original maps, this historian of US railways has created an illustrated atlas that should appeal general history readers and railroad fans alike.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Old Iron Road by David Haward Bain Publisher Comments In the summer of 2000, David Haward Bain and his family headed west in search of America's past. Following abandoned railroad tracks and the traces of old wagon trails, they discovered a uniquely American spirit of adventure that connects our past to our... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Union Pacific Country by Robert G Athearn Publisher Comments "No one has done before what Athearn has done in this volume. He has utilized company records and a variety of other sources to write a very attractive and readable, but scholarly account of the impact of the Union Pacific and its branch line son the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by John Hoyt Williams Publisher Comments The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike. This historic ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Spanning the... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $1.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Train by Jonathan Glancey Publisher Comments The train changed the face of the world. From slow beginnings in the coalmines of England at the start of the nineteenth century, it was possible by the 1840s to cover vast distances at unprecedented speed, changing modern communications forever. Much... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Railroads on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Rolling Thunder: A Portrait of North American Railroading by Gary Benson Book News Annotation Classed unassailably with photography by the Library of Congress, Gary J. Benson's photos are technically and aesthetically excellent. The book focuses on trains in the last fifth of the 20th century, a time of revitalization for this efficient... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Starlight on the Rails by Jeff Brouws Synopsis Text by Jeff Brouws. A powerful strand of mid-20th-century American folklore found romance in trains. The railway photographs in this amazing volume -- all taken at night and resulting from the most demanding technical efforts -- capture these bygone... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West by Dee Brown Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's classic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. In February 1854 the first railroad from the East reached the Mississippi; by the end of the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale by Sam Posey Publisher Comments Why do grown men play with trains? Is it a primal attachment to childhood, nostalgia for the lost age of rail travel, or the stuff of flat-out obsession? In this delightful and unprecedented book, Grand Prix legend Sam Posey tracks those who share his... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Goin' Railroading by Margaret Coel Publisher Comments As America moved westward in the 19th century, few occupations seemed more exciting or romantic than that of railroad engineer. Speas tells the story of his father who left Missouri in 1883 to become an engineer, and recounts his experiences from the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Early American Locomotives (Trains) by John White Publisher Comments Finest locomotive engravings from early 19th century: historical (1804–1874), main line (after 1870), special, foreign, but mostly American domestic engines. Many types: grasshoppers, camel-backs, Moguls, Forneys, plus some famous ones —... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Railroads across America :a celebration of 150 years of railroading by Mike Del Vecchio Publisher Comments This comprehensive photographic history is arranged by eight geographical regions to present the grand saga of railroading in the United States and Canada -- from the earliest days of steam locomotives, through the dawn of the diesel era and modern... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Building of the Railroad That Crossed the Ocean by Les Standiford Publisher Comments Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les 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 $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: 160 Lines Abandoned or Merged Since 1930 by George H Drury Synopsis The important railroad mergers in the past few years have readers looking for a comprehensive reference. This concise guide covers histories of all North American railroads abandoned or merged since 1930. No other book covers the topic as thoroughly... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy Publisher Comments An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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