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• Railroad fiction

• Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1892), by Kirk Munroe (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Driver (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1922), by Garet Garrett (multiple formats at Google)
• Empire Builders (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1907), by Francis Lynde, illust. by Jay Hambidge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Erie Train Boy, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
• A Fool for Love, by Francis Lynde (Gutenberg text)
• On the Iron at Big Cloud (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co, 1911), by Frank L. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1881), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Railroad Book: Bob and Betty's Summer on the Railroad (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1913), by E. Boyd Smith (page images with commentary at Brooklyn Public Library)
• The Railroad Children (London: J. and C. Mozley, 1855), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Ralph on the Engine: or, The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1909), by Allen Chapman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Ralph on the Overland Express: or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1910), by Allen Chapman, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Romance in Transit (third edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1899), by Francis Lynde
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Scientific Sprague (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), by Francis Lynde, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Wire Devils (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard (Gutenberg text)
• The Silent Alarm (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1926), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bart Stirling's Road to Success: or, The Young Express Agent (New York: Cupples and Leon, 1908), by Allen Chapman, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Black Doctor, and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Stories of the railway. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Armistead C. Gordon, Thomas Nelson Page, Charles Stewart Davison, and George A. Hibbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Empire builders (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907), by Francis Lynde, Jay Hambidge, Braunworth & Co, and Bobbs-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The short line war (The Macmillan Company;, 1899), by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bodleys afoot (Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880), by Horace Elisha Scudder, John Parker Davis, A. P. Close, J. Augustus Bogert, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, H.O. Houghton & Company, and Osgood Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The iron way; a tale of the builders of the West (A.C. McClury & Co., 1907), by Sarah Pratt Carr, John W. Norton, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the railroad, by John A. Hill. (Doubleday & McClure, 1899), by John A. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manager of the B & A; a novel, (Harper & brothers, 1901), by Vaughan Kester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightning express (Lee and Shepard, 1870), by Oliver Optic, Samuel Smith Kilburn, Reimunt Sayer, and American Popular Literature Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simeon Tetlow's shadow (The Century co., 1909), by Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a train of cars : a tale of travel (Authors Publishing Association, 1895), by Wallace Peck and Authors' Publishing Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tenderfoots (C. Scribner's sons, 1926), by Francis Lynde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scientific Sprague (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), by Francis Lynde, E. Roscoe Shrader, Scribner Press, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roads of doubt (Grosset & Dunlap, 1925), by William MacLeod Raine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diamond key and how the railway heroes won it (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1907), by Alvah Milton Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The manager of the B. & A. : a novel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1901), by Vaughan Kester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Held for orders : stories of railroad life (A.L. Burt Co., 1901), by Frank H. Spearman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The White Mail (C. Scribner's Sons, 1899), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The general manager's story; old-time reminiscences of railroading in the United States (Macmillan company, 1898), by Herbert Elliott Hamblen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Along the way (R.F. Fenno & Company, 1909), by William Walker Canfield, Sydney K. Hartman, and R.F. Fenno & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleading for justice (Justice Publishing Company, 1920), by W. C. Burns, Ralph P. Coleman, and Justice Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fool for love (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905), by Francis Lynde and George Brehm (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Erie train boy (Whitman Publishing Co., 1900), by Horatio Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rawhide railroad. (George Estes' Publishers, 1924), by George Estes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad (Lee and Shepard, 1870), by Oliver Optic, Samuel Smith Kilburn, W. L. Champney, Lee and Shepard, and Boston Stereotype Foundry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young captain of the Ucayga steamer (Lee and Shepard, 1870), by Oliver Optic, Samuel Smith Kilburn, Lee and Shepard, and Boston Stereotype Foundry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The driver (E. P. Dutton & company, 1922), by Garet Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Railroad. (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901), by Jay Hambidge, James A. Hill, William MacLeod Raine, Frank H. Spearman, F. B. Tracy, Elmore Elliott Peake, and Phillips & Co McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of Red Butte Western (Grosset & Dunlap, 1910), by Francis Lynde and Maynard Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grafters (Grosset & Dunlap, 1904), by Francis Lynde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wreckers (A.L. Burt Co., 1920), by Francis Lynde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Empire builders (A.L. Burt, 1907), by Francis Lynde and Jay Hambidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cab and caboose : the story of a railroad boy (Grosset & Dunlap, 1892), by Kirk Munroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph of the roundhouse : or, Bound to become a railroad man (Grosset & Dunlap, 1906), by Allen Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ralph in the switch tower (Grosset & Dunlap, 1907), by Allen Chapman, Decorative Designers (Firm), and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph on the overland express : or, The trials and triumphs of a young engineer (Grosset & Dunlap, 1910), by Allen Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rail-road forger and the detectives (G.W. Dillingham Co., 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cab and caboose; the story of a railroad boy (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by Kirk Munroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• We win; the life and adventures of a young railroader (Doubleday & McClure co., 1899), by Herbert Elliott Hamblen (page images at HathiTrust)
• To market (Stratford, 1928), by Harvey J. Sconce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The magic midland (George H. Doran company, 1923), by Harold Waldo (page images at HathiTrust)
• End of steel (Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1931), by Courtney Ryley Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Whispering rails (The Goldsmith publishing company, 1936), by Gilbert A. Lathrop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mystery rides the rails (The Goldsmith publishing company, 1937), by Gilbert A. Lathrop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trains; a children's picture book of trains and stories about them (M.A. Donohue & Company, 1935), by Louis T. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The tenderfoots, by Francis Lynde (Gutenberg ebook)
• Through by daylight : Or, the young engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad, by Oliver Optic, illust. by Samuel Smith Kilburn and W. L. Champney (Gutenberg ebook)
• The White Mail, by Cy Warman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Scientific Sprague, by Francis Lynde, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader (Gutenberg ebook)
• Over the Wire, by Eugene Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
• Caleb Conover, Railroader, by Albert Payson Terhune, illust. by Frank Parker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cinders, by W. C. Tuttle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Driver, by Garet Garrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• On Time; or, Bound to Get There, by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christmas on Wheels, by Willis Boyd Allen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memorias de un vagón de ferrocarril (in Spanish), by Eduardo Zamacois (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Young Section-Hand, by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prince Dusty: A Story of the Oil Regions, by Kirk Munroe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Shag, by Bob Farnham (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Young Train Master, by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Henry Goss (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Young Train Dispatcher, by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by A. P. Button (Gutenberg ebook)
• On the Iron at Big Cloud, by Frank L. Packard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Simeon Tetlow's Shadow, by Jennette Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Manager of the B. & A.: A Novel, by Vaughan Kester (Gutenberg ebook)
• Excuse Me!, by Rupert Hughes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ralph, the Train Dispatcher; Or, The Mystery of the Pay Car, by Allen Chapman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of the Railroad, by John A. Hill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Held for Orders: Being Stories of Railroad Life, by Frank H. Spearman, illust. by Jay Hambidge (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Nerve of Foley, and Other Railroad Stories, by Frank H. Spearman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chasing an Iron Horse; Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War, by Edward Robins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Danger signals : Remarkable, exciting and unique examples of the bravery, daring and stoicism in the midst of danger of train dispatchers and railroad engineers, by John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady (Gutenberg ebook)
• The last spike, and other railroad stories, by Cy Warman (Gutenberg ebook)

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