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• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Memorial of the People of Red River: to the British and Canadian Governments, With Remarks on the Colonization of Central British North America, and the Establishment of a Great Territorial Road From Canada to British Columbia (1863), by Sandford Fleming (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Railroad Safety: U.S.-Canadian Comparison (OTA-T-95; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Canadian Born (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1910), by Mrs. Humphry Ward, illust. by Albert Sterner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lady Merton, Colonist, by Mrs. Humphry Ward, illust. by Albert Sterner (Gutenberg text)

• The Gold Trail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1910), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text)

• Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Short Line War, by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg text)

• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)

• The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries, 1910-1941 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Gregory Lee Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)

• La Autonomía de los Ferrocarriles del Estado: Discurso Pronunciado por el Senador por Ñuble, Don Gonzalo Urrejola, Sesiones del 18, 19 y 22 de Enero de 1917 (in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: La Ilustración, 1917), by Gonzalo Urrejola (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Sächsischen Eisenbahnen in Historisch-Statistischer Darstellung (in German; Leipzig: T. Thomas, ca. 1902), by Albert Wiedemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; et al., 1831), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sapbush Run: An Informal History of the Black River and Utica Railroad (Boonville, NY: Black River Books, 1948), by Thomas C. O'Donnell, contrib. by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad by William Seward Webb, 1891-92 (Norwood, MA: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Howard Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A History of Railroads in Tompkins County (third edition, 2008), by Hardy Campbell Lee, Winton Rossiter, and John Marcham (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1977), by Carl W. Condit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)

• Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Aaron W. Marrs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Railroad Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody (Gutenberg text)
• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• The Truth About "American Ground Transport": A Reply by General Motors (1974), by General Motors Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Trolley Through the Countryside (Denver: Sage Books, 1963), by Allison Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (page images at mpl.org)

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; With Special Reference to the Life of Alexander F. Whitney (New York: A. and C. Boni, c1936), by Walter Flavius McCaleb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by David M. Vrooman (PDF at Ohio State)

• History of Railroad Strikes: A History of the Railroad Revolt of 1877; the American Railroad Union Strike on the Great Northern in 1894 and its Participation in the Pullman Car Strikes of the Same Year; the Eight-Hour-Day Strike of 1917 and the Runaway Switchmen's Strike of 1920 (Washington: Brotherhood Pub. Co., 1935), by O. D. Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Richard V. Francaviglia
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Canada (new and revised edition, with additional chapter; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by John George Bourinot, contrib. by William H. Ingram (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Canada and the States: Recollections, 1851 to 1886, by E. W. Watkin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Canada, the Empire of the North: Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom (1909), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Canada Under British Rule, 1760-1900, by John George Bourinot (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Canada, From its First Discovery to the Present Time (Brockville, ON: McMullen and Co., 1868), by John Mercier McMullen (multiple formats at Google)
• The Rise of Canada, From Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation ("volume I" only volume published; Quebec: P. Sinclair; et al., 1856), by Charles Roger (Gutenberg text)
• Tuttle's Popular History of the Dominion of Canada With Art Illustrations From the Earliest Settlement of the British-American Colonies to the Present Time, Together With Portrait Engravings and Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Men of the Nation (Montreal; Boston: Downie; Tuttle & Downie, 1877), by Charles R. Tuttle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canadian Scenery Illustrated (2 volumes; London: G. Virtue, 1842), by Nathaniel Parker Willis, illust. by W. H. Bartlett
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.