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• Electric Franchises in New York City (1919), by Leonora Arent (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Station Agent's Blue Book (Chicago: Kirkpatrick Pub. Co., ca. 1928), by Otto Bernard Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Richard J. Gilbert (HTML at UC Press)

• Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Richard J. Gilbert (HTML at UC Press)

• How Members of Congress Are Bribed: An Open Letter; A Protest and a Petition From a Citizen of California to the United States Congress, by J. Hampton Moore (Gutenberg text)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)

• 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)

• The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation (electronic edition, c2007), by Paul W. MacAvoy (PDF files with commentary at Yale University Press)

• Utility of the Future: An MIT Energy Initiative Response to an Industry in Transition (c2016), by MIT Energy Initiative, contrib. by Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga and Christopher R. Knittel (PDF with commentary at MIT)

• Utility of the Future: An MIT Energy Initiative Response to an Industry in Transition (c2016), by MIT Energy Initiative, contrib. by Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga and Christopher R. Knittel (PDF with commentary at MIT)

• The U. P. Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The U. P. Trail (home library edition; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, 1918), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U. P. Trail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1918), by Zane Grey (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• The Signalman's Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Railroad Trainman (partial serial archives)

• Locomotive Engineers Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Railroaders' Next Step: Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #1; second edition; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Railroad Workers Forward! (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)

• 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)

• The Watson-Parker Law: The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1927), by William Z. Foster
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• International Railwaymen's Congress: London, November 29-30, 1920 (1921), by International Labour Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Development of the Written Test to Select Claims Examiners for the Railroad Retirement Board (Washington: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Office of Staffing Policy, Test Examining Division, 1985), by Mary Anne Nester and Donald E. McCauley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual Report of the Railroad Retirement Board, by United States Railroad Retirement Board (partial serial archives)

• Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Station Agent's Blue Book (Chicago: Kirkpatrick Pub. Co., ca. 1928), by Otto Bernard Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections of a Sleeping Car Porter (Jersey City: Doan and Pilson, 1892), by Jack Thorne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Eagle Clippings (Brooklyn, NY: D.B. Fulton, ca. 1907), by Jack Thorne
  • illustrated HTML at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rights of Trains (fifth edition; New York: Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp., c1957), by Peter Josserand, contrib. by Harry W. Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rights of Trains on Single Track: A Complete Examination for Employes on the Standard Code and Other Recommended Train Rules (New York: Railroad Gazette, 1904), by Harry W. Forman
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Railroad Trainman (partial serial archives)

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

• Railroad Workers Forward! (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)
• 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)
• The Railroaders' Next Step: Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #1; second edition; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Specifications for Electric Locomotives Proposed for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1905), by General Electric Company, contrib. by New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fires in Mass Transit Vehicles: Report of the Committee on Toxicity Hazards of Materials Used in Transit Vehicles, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• From Slavery to Civil Rights: On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2020), by Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham (PDF at OAPEN)

• American Journal of Railway Appliances (partial serial archives)

• Die Technik des Eisenbahnbetriebes in Bezug auf die Sicherheit Desselben (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1854), by Max Maria Weber
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• World Trade Information Service (partial serial archives)

• Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Richard J. Gilbert (HTML at UC Press)

• Benson Bidwell, Inventor of the Trolley Car, Electric Fan and Cold Motor: History of Early Struggles and Later Successes; With Personal Reminiscences, Lectures, Essays and Letters (Chicago: Henneberry Press, 1907), by Benson Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fifty Years on the Rail (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, c1912), by J. J. Thomas (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
• Railway Economy, by Dionysius Lardner (page images at MOA)
• The Working of the Railroads (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1907), by Logan G. McPherson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)

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