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• Railroads

• Pacific railroads -- Early projects
• Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys

• 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 Attitude of National Parties in Respect to a Pacific Railroad (Washington, DC: Buell and Blanchard, 1859), by Republican Association of Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mission of the North American People, Geographical, Social, and Political, by William Gilpin (page images at MOA)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Lecture on the Railroad to the Pacific (1850), by Calvin Colton, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route For a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, by United States War Department (page images at MOA)
• Senatorial Excursion Party over the Union Pacific Railway, E. D., by Kansas Pacific Railway Company (page images at MOA)
• Union Pacific Railroad: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in Answer to a Resolution of the House of February 4 Relative to Reports of the Union Pacific and Other Railroads to be Made According to Law (1877), by United States Department of the Treasury (page images at cprr.org)
• Field Notes (1889), by Robert Brewster Stanton (frame-dependent page images at NYPL)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• The Congo-Railway From Matadi to the Stanley Pool: Results of Survey (Brussels: P. Weissenbruch, 1889), by Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad Passenger Train Deficit (docket #31954; ca. 1959), by United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad Electrification (East Pittsburgh, PA: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 1914), by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Railway and Lighting Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• Étude sur les Signaux des Chemins de Fer Français (second edition, in French; Paris: Dunod, 1883), by Mr. Brame and Louis Aguillon (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

• The Village at the End of the Road: A Chapter in Early Indiana Railroad History (Indiana Historical Society Publications v13 #1; 1938), by Wylie J. Daniels (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Trains at Work (Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1953), by Mary Elting, illust. by David Millard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The First Book of Trains (published under "Campbell Tatham" pseudonym; New York, F. Watts, c1948), by Mary Elting, illust. by Jeanne Bendick (page images at HathiTrust)
• All About Railways: A Book for Boys (London et al.: Cassell and Co., ca. 1911), by F. S. Hartnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lake Superior Railroad, by Morgan L. Drake (page images at MOA)

• Hints on the Internal Improvement of North Carolina (page images at MOA)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• Railway and Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• American Railroad Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Railroad Car Journal (full serial archives)
• Railroad Digest (full serial archives)
• American Journal of Railway Appliances (partial serial archives)
• The Locomotive Engineer (1888-1891) (full serial archives)
• Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• Marine and Railway Gazette (partial serial archives)
• The Railroad and Engineering Journal (full serial archives)
• Railroad Man's Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Songs of the Rail (1878), by Alexander Anderson (HTML in the UK)

• Guide to the Great Siberian Railway (St. Petersburg: Artistic Printing Society, 1900), ed. by A. I. Dmitrīevʺ-Mamonovʺ and A. F. Zdziarski, trans. by L. Kukol-Yasnopolsky and John Marshall (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Russia Route Zone A: Murman Railway and Kola Peninsula (Washington: GPO, 1918), by United States War Department Military Intelligence Division
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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

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

• Étude sur les Signaux de Chemins de Fer à Double Voie (in French; Paris: Dunod, 1867), by Mr. Brame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur les Signaux des Chemins de Fer Français (second edition, in French; Paris: Dunod, 1883), by Mr. Brame and Louis Aguillon (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Railways During the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 (London: HMSO, 1903), by P. C. Girouard (page images at HathiTrust)

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

More items available under broader and related terms at left.