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Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Usa: Morning Sun Books Inc., 2020. Book. New. Hardcover. Not Signed. 1st Edition. 290mm x 225mm x 7mm. 128 Pages With Colour Photos. A 1903 Law Prohibiting The Use Of Steam Locomotives In Manhattan Became The Catalyst That Started The Predecessor Companies Of The New York Central And New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads On… Read more

Bucklin, MO, USA: White River Productions, 2020. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. This third volume covering the Denver & Rio Grande Western in the era of color photography examines the origins and ultimate demise of the D&RGW¹s Utah Division between Grand Junction, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah. Built by the same General Palmer who had contributed so much to the early… Read more

Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 2008. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 188 Pages with Black/White Photos & Illustrations. Iron Rails in the Garden State is a sampler of unique and fascinating stories about railroading in New Jersey, culled from archives and independent research. It is a collection of historical vignettes, and because it is not tied to a particular… Read more

Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 2000. Book. New. Hardcover. Reprint. 232 Pages with Black/White Photos, Line Drawings & Tables. Definitive history of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its steam locomotives and steamships. Prince was a masterful historian and this books provides a fascinating and detailed look at the origins of the ACL, the creation of Henry Bradley Plant's Plant… Read more

Chicago, Illinois, USA: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. Book. New. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 306 Pages with Black/White Photos & Maps. Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by… Read more

Pakenham, Victoria, Australia: Pakenham Gazette, 1984. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 108 Pages with Black/White Photos..

Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 1999. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 192 Pages with Black/White Photos. A history of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its predecessor companies in Indiana. Few corporate institutions had such widespread impact upon Indiana's people or their way of life-the "Pennsy" once operated one-fourth of the state's rail mileage. Highlights of its story include coverage of… Read more

Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 1997. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 300 Pages with Black/White Photos. Despite the huge amount of interest in railroads, this is the first complete description and history of the railroads of Indiana from the first line, completed in 1838, up to the present. Simons and Parker follow Indiana's railroads through five distinct eras -… Read more

Forest Park, Illinois, USA: Heimburger House Publishing Company, 1996. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 128 Pages with Black/White Photos & Tables. One of the oldest companies in Georgia, the Glover Machine Works produced 200 small steam locomotives in eight different gauges. The only recorded history of this company.

Los Angeles, California, USA: Getty Publications, 2003. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 164 Pages with Black/White Photos. In 1830 the British actress Fanny Kemble described the sensation of riding in a train as "strange beyond description." This revolutionary new mode of transportation came into being at almost exactly the same time as an equally revolutionary new invention: photography. The two… Read more

Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA: Kalmbach Books, 1991. Book. New. Soft cover. 4th Edition. 320 Pages with Black/White Photos..

Columbia, South Carolina, USA: University of South Carolina, 2000. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 182 Pages with Black/White Photos. A pictorial memoir of railroading during the days when trains were still the dominant mode of American intercity travel. This account tells of the role railroads played in Rubin's life as a child and as an adult in search of vocation.… Read more

London, UK: A. & C. Black Limited, 1979. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Jacket Clipped. 320 Pages with Black/White Photos, Line Drawings & Maps..

New York, New York, USA: Dover Publications Inc., 1972. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Approx. 160 Pages with Black/White Illustations. Relive the early days of train travel with this exciting illustrated story of steam locomotion. Working with great love and skill from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous accounts, author Reed Kinert recreates, in exacting detail, illustrations of the… Read more

Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 2010. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 168 Pages with Black/White Photos & Maps. 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

Stanford, California, USA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 156 Pages with Black/White Photos. An evocative and honest portrayal in words and images of railroad life in America, Railroad Voices is a collaboration by two of the first women to work as railroad brakemen. Linda Niemann hired on the Southern Pacific in 1979 in California, where she… Read more

Forest Park, Illinois, USA: Heimburger House Publishing Company, 1994. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Approx. 80 Pages with Colour Photos & Illustrations. This all-colour book features nearly 120 photographs from these two Midwest railroads. Artist Porter also includes 10 of his beautiful Chicago & Northwestern and Milwaukee road oil paintings and illustrations. Both steam and diesel trains are depicted including… Read more

Hudson, Wisconsin, USA: Iconografix, 2002. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 126 Pages with Black/White Photos & Illustrations. In 1935 an intense rivalry between the Chicago & North Western, Milwaukee Road and Burlington Route began in the busy Chicago-St. Paul/Minneapolis (Twin Cities) corridor. The competition lasted until 1971. For many years the proud 400's, bold Hiawathas and sleek Twin Zephyrs… Read more

Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 274 Pages with Black/White Photos and Maps. By the start of the twentieth century railroads crisscrossed the nation, yet there were still those who believed that the railroad network in the United States was far from complete. Residents of small towns lacking rail access lobbied hard for… Read more

Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA: Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1995. Book. New. Soft cover. 13th Edition. 200 Pages with Maps..