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The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.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)
Operation of trains and station work and telegraphy, (Chicago, F. J. Drake & co., [c1916]), by Frederick John Prior (page images at HathiTrust)
Prontuario delle disposizioni concernenti il movimento dei treni ... (Prato, Firenze, Passerini, 1906), by Leonetto Carreras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Use of technology for improved rail safety : hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, July 11, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
Freight train resistance : its relation to car weight / (Urbana, Ill. : The University, [1910]), by Edward C. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The effects of cold weather upon train resistance and tonnage rating / (Urbana : University of Illinois, [1912]), by Edward C. Schmidt and Franklin Wales Marquis (page images at HathiTrust)
Railcar loading procedures. ([Washington, D.C.] : Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, [1988-), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
The people of the Pennsy / ([Washington, D.C.? : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1993]), by United States National Park Service, United States. Dept. of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, and Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
Arguments for and against limitation of length of freight trains. (Washington : Bureau of Railway Economics, 1916), by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
Train operation [microform], (Rochester, N.Y., San Francisco, Cal., L. Brown, [c1916]), by William Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
Dynamometer car tests of 1905-1906 / (1906), by Henry Hudson Hook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Train resistance : a consideration of its elements and a discussion of experiments made with the university dynamometer car / (1900), by Alfred Leonhardt Kuehn and Clarence Leroy Eddy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Principles of locomotive operation and train control, (New York [etc.] McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1915), by Arthur Julius Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
America's first installation of system-wide railroad radio communication. ([Chicago, Ill.] : Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, [1949]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The man in lower ten / (Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1909), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Braunworth Press. prt, and Bobbs-Merrill Company. pbl, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the ... annual convention / (Buffalo, N.Y. : Webster Brothers, Printers, 1885), by American Train Dispatchers Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Study of merger alternatives : run-through trains : a report to the Rail Services Planning Office, Interstate Commerce Commission / ([Washington] : The Office, 1977), by R.L. Banks & Associates and United States. Rail Services Planning Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Table giving at inspection the proper net hauling capacity in daily service of all weights and types of locomotives on any grade ... Being Table 170 of "The economic theory of the location of railways", (New York, Engineering news, [189-?]), by A. M. Wellington (page images at HathiTrust)
Operating trains ... : forming one of the series of the volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of "Kirkman's Science of railways". (Chicago : Cropley Phillips company, 1918), by Marshall M. Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Chemins de fer. De la résistance des trains et de la puissance des machines, (Paris, E. Lacroix, 1868), by Louis Vuillemin, Alfred Guebhard, and Camille Henri Dieudonné (page images at HathiTrust)
A study of dynamics of train motion with special reference to the theory and the application of speed-time, distance-time, and speed-distance curves / (1917), by Sentaro Sekine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Aerodynamic effects of high-speed passenger trains on other trains : safety of high-speed ground transportation systems / (Washington, D.C. : Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development, [2002]), by Samuel Holmes, Martin P. Schroeder, Applied Research Associates, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.), and United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
De la responsabilité des compagnies de chemins de fer pour cause de retard. (1901), by Joseph Couadau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Inspection and regulation of train-dispatching service : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on interstate commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, on S. 1538, a bill to promote the safety of railroad employees and travelers on railroads, and to promote efficiency of railroad operation by providing for inspection and investigation of conditions under which train-dispatching service may be performed, and for the promulgation of rules and regulations governing such conditions. April 15, 16, and 17, 1946. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1946), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce. Subcommittee on S. 1538 (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
From the new capital to the old ; April 29th - May 1st, 1889. ([s.l.] : Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1889), by Pennsylvania Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad car wheel service / (Chicago ; New York : Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels, 1938), by Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels and Frederick Ketchum Vial (page images at HathiTrust)
Operation of trains and station work and telegraphy, (Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co., [c1919]), by Frederick J. Prior (page images at HathiTrust)
Names and nicknames of freight trains operated on the railroads of the United States and Canada. (Washington, D.C. : Association of American Railroads, [1952]), by Association of American Railroads (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the Mechanical advisory committee to the Federal coordinator of transportation ... ([Washington, D.C.], 1935), by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
Mémoire sur les locomotives à trés-grande vitesse, (Paris : Auguste Lemoine, 1878), by Emilien Desmousseaux de Givré, Rabeuf, and Alexandre Louis Deghilage (page images at HathiTrust)
Parametric analysis of railway line capacity / (Washington : Federal Railroad Administration, 1975), by John C. Prokopy, Richard B. Rubin, United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development, and Marwick Peat (page images at HathiTrust)
Understanding how train dispatchers manage and control trains : results of a cognitive task analysis / (Washington, D.C. : Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ; [Springfield, VA : Available through the National Technical Information Service, 2001]), by Emilie Matarasso Roth, Jordan Multer, Nicolas Malsch, United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development, and John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
An analysis of the job of railroad train dispatcher / (Washington, DC : Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research, Development and Demonstrations ; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service [distributor, 1974]), by D. B. Devoe, Development and Demonstrations United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research, and Transportation Systems Center (page images at HathiTrust)
A preliminary examination of railroad dispatcher workload, stress, and fatigue / (Washington, D.C. : Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ; [Springfield, VA : Available through the National Technical Information Service, 2001]), by S. Popkin, S. Reinach, Judith B. Gertler, Foster-Miller, and United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
Train operation by signal indication. I. The two principal methods of directing train movements. II. Directing train movements by signal indication. (New York, H. M. Sperry, 1920), by Henry Muhlenberg Sperry (page images at HathiTrust)
Let's operate a railroad; being a textbook on operational aspects of railroading and of the men who perform the fascinating job. With a measure of railroadiana inserted. (Warwick, Va., High-Iron Publishers, [1957]), by L. E. Roxbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Supplement to list of references to legislation in the United States on minimum train crews and maximum length of trains. ([Washington], 1915), by D.C.). Library Bureau of Railway Economics (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
Maximum car limit and full crew bills; ([Roanoke? Va., 1914]), by N. D. Maher (page images at HathiTrust)
Test train program : 5th progress report, 1973 / (Washington : U. S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research, Development and Demonstrations.), by ENSCO. and Development United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Investigation of the power consumed in overcoming the inertia of railway trains, and of the resistance of the air to the motion of railway trains at high velocities ... (London, J. Weale, 1848), by P. W. Barlow (page images at HathiTrust)
On the resistances to railway trains at different velocities ... With an abstract of the discussion upon the paper. Excerpt minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of civil engineers. (London [Printed by W. Clowes and sons], 1846), by Wyndham Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
Train rules and train dispatching : a practical guide for train dispatchers, enginemen, trainmen and all who have to do with the movement of trains / (New York : The Derry-Collard company; [etc., etc.], 1904), by H. A. Dalby (page images at HathiTrust)
The train dispatcher; a manual of railway telegraphy, (Chicago. The Henneberry company, [1903]), by A. W. Early (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Train lengths. Hearings before the Committee on interstate and foreign commerce, House of representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, on S. 69, to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate commerce", approved February 4, 1887, as amended and supplemented, by limiting freight or other trains to seventy cars. ... (Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
On the resistance to traction on railways by friction and gravitation. ([Darlington, Eng., H. Penny, printer], 1861), by John Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
Trains at work / (Garden City, N. Y. : Garden City Books, c1953), by Mary Elting and David Millard (page images at HathiTrust)
To limit length of trains in interstate commerce. (Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1935), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
Analog and digital computer simulation of Coulomb friction / (Washington : Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ; Springfield, Va. : Available through the National Technical Information Service, [1977]), by R. Heller, Clemson University. Department of Mechanical Engineering, and United States. Federal Railroad Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway operating and signalling techniques in Europe, Japan and the United States of America; report of the Expert Working Group from Asia and the Far East on Railway Operating and Signalling : 2 October 1952 - 6 February 1953. ([New York?] United Nations, 1954), by Expert Working Group from Asia and the Far East on Railway Operating and Signalling (page images at HathiTrust)
Limiting the car length of trains. (Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1934), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
The resistance of express trains. (London, The Railway engineer, 1925), by C. F. Dendy Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité de stabilité du matériel des chemins de fer; influence des divers éléments de la voie d'après les mémoires de l'auteur couronnés par l'Académie des sciences et par la Société des ingénieurs civils ... (Paris et Liége, C. Béranger, 1924), by Georges Marié (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Express trains, English and foreign, being a statistical account of all the express trains of the world, (London, Smith, Elder & co., 1889), by E. Foxwell and T. C. Farrer (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Wichtigste über Bau und Einrichtung der Eisenbahnwagen : ein Leitfaden für den technischen Unterricht des Zugbegleit- und Wagenaufsichtspersonals sowie der Eisenbahn-Anwärter und Eisenbahn-Praktikanten., by Germany). K. Eisenbahn-Werkstätteninspektion Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Field evaluation of locomotive conspicuity lights. Final report. (1975), by D. B. Devoe and C. N. Abernethy (page images at HathiTrust)
Energy and economic impacts of projected freight transportation improvements. Final report. (1977), by R. H. Leilich, R. D. Cohen, A. Green, and M. J. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
Enhancement of train visibility. Final report. (1973), by John B. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Freight transportation petroleum conservation - viability evaluation. Final report. (1979), by D. J. Maio (page images at HathiTrust)
An investigation of truck size and weight limits - technical supplement. Volume 3: truck and rail fuel effects of truck size and weight limits. (1981), by David Knapton (page images at HathiTrust)
Annotated bibliography of rail transit safety, 1975-1980, with emphasis on safety research and development. Final report. (1981), by R. J. Pawlak, R. M. Snow, and M. E. Metcalf (page images at HathiTrust)
Amtrak: financial condition has deteriorated and future costs make recovery difficult. (1994) (page images at HathiTrust)
Impact assessment of the Virginia Railway Express Commuter Rail on land use development patterns in northern Virginia. (1995) (page images at HathiTrust)
Feasibility study of in-vehicle warning systems. Final report. (1975), by D. D. Peterson and D. S. Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroads and the environment - estimation of fuel consumption in rail transportation. Volume I - analytical model. Final report. (1975), by John B. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Guidelines for enhancement of visual conspicuity of trains at grade crossings. Final report. (1975), by John B. Hopkins and A. T. Newfell (page images at HathiTrust)
Crashworthiness analysis of the UMTA state-of-the-art cars. Final report. (1975), by E. Widmayer, A. E. Tanner, and R. Klump (page images at HathiTrust)
Technology assessments in the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1975. Final report. (1975) (page images at HathiTrust)
An assessment of the crashworthiness of existing urban rail vehicles. Volume II: analyses and assessments of vehicles. Chapters 8 through 12 and appendixes and references. Final report. (1975), by R. J. Cassidy and D. J. Romeo (page images at HathiTrust)
An assessment of the crashworthiness of existing urban rail vehicles. Volume I: analyses and assessments of vehicles. Chapters 1 through 7. Final report. (1975), by R. J. Cassidy and D. J. Romeo (page images at HathiTrust)
Ride quality symposium. 1975. Technical memorandum. (1975), by 11-12 Aug 1975 Ride Quality Symposium (page images at HathiTrust)
An assessment of the crashworthiness of existing urban rail vehicles. Volume III: train-collision model users manual. Final report. (1975), by David J. Segal (page images at HathiTrust)
Performance analyses of intercity ground passenger transportation systems. Final report. (1976), by John S. Hitz (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive to automobile baseline crash tests. Final report. (1975), by Robert L. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies of freight train engineer performance. Final report. (1976), by E. Donald Sussman and D. Ofsevit (page images at HathiTrust)
Multidisciplinary accident investigation - school bus locomotive-caboose collision, Lafayette, Oregon, September 8, 1976. MDAI team report. (1977), by Eugene E. Flamboe and J. Ouelett (page images at HathiTrust)
Rail safety/ equipment crashworthiness. Volume I: A systems analysis of injury minimization in rail systems. Interim report. (1978), by M. J. Reilly, R. H. Jines, and A. E. Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
Rail safety/ equipment crashworthiness. Volume IV: Executive summary. Interim report. (1978), by M. J. Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
Rail safety/ equipment crashworthiness. Volume II: Design guide. Interim report. (1978), by M. J. Reilly, J. Shefrin, and L. M. Patrick (page images at HathiTrust)
Rail safety/ equipment crashworthiness. Volume III: Proposed engineering standards. Interim report. (1978), by M. J. Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
Guidelines for enhancement of visual conspicuity of the trailing end of trains. Final report. (1974), by John B. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Development of a systems risk methodology for single and multi-modal transportation systems. Final report. (1979), by Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang and J. Briscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
Tank car head puncture mechanisms. Final report. (1980), by D. A. Peters, B. A. Szabo, and W. B. Diboll (page images at HathiTrust)
National conference on railroad/highway safety. 1982. Proceedings. (1982), by Hoy A. Richards and 31 Aug-2 Sept 1982 National Conference of Railroad/Highway Safety (page images at HathiTrust)
Assessment of the Department of Transportation's systems safety plan. (1982) (page images at HathiTrust)
International conference on wheel/rail load and displacement measurement techniques. Proceedings. (Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1981), by Pin Tong, R. Greif, and 19-20 Jan 1981 International Conference on Wheel/Rail Load and Displacement Measurement Techniques (page images at HathiTrust)
Application of active and passive suspension techniques to improve high speed ground vehicle performance - phase II. Final report. (1982), by J. K. Hedrick, D. N. Wormley, F. Buzan, Lijing Chen, and M. Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Guidelines for the prevention of traffic noise problems. (1986), by F. F. Rudder and S. L. Yaniv (page images at HathiTrust)
Collision avoidance and accident survivability. Volume 4: Proposed specification. Final report. (1993), by Alan J. Bing (page images at HathiTrust)
National Maglev Initiative. Final report. (1993) (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety of highway-railroad grade crossings: research needs workshop. Volume I. (1996), by Anya A. Carroll and Janelle L. Helser (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety of highway-railroad grade crossings: research needs workshop. Volume II: appendices. (1996), by Anya A. Carroll and Janelle L. Helser (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety of highway-railroad grade crossings: use of auxiliary external alerting devices to improve locomotive conspicuity. (1995), by Anya A. Carroll, J. Multer, and S. H. Markos (page images at HathiTrust)
Bicycle hazard mitigation manual. Interim report. (1995), by Alix Demers, A. Suddarth, Hani S. Mahmassani, Siamak Assaee Ardekani, and Shekhar Govind (page images at HathiTrust)
Rail transportation: Federal Railroad Administration's new approach to railroad safety. (1997) (page images at HathiTrust)
Intercity passenger rail: issues associated with a possible Amtrak liquidation. (1998) (page images at HathiTrust)
Evaluation of retroreflective markings to increase rail car conspicuity -- safety of highway-railroad grade crossings. (1998), by Robert E. Ford, Stephen H. Richards, and John C. Hungerford (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad horn systems research. (1999), by Amanda S. Rapoza, T. G. Raslear, and Edward J. Rickley (page images at HathiTrust)
Guide for traffic signal preemption near railroad grade crossing. (2000), by Steven P. Venglar, Marc S. Jacobson, Srinivasa R. Sunkari, Roelof Johannes Engelbrecht, and T. Urbanik (page images at HathiTrust)
Recognition of rail car retroreflective patterns for improving nighttime conspicuity: safety of highway-railroad grade crossings. (2001), by J. Multer, J. Conti, and T. Sheridan (page images at HathiTrust)
OHVT technology roadmap. (2002), by R. A. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
Evaluation of enhanced traffic control devices at highway-railroad grade crossings. (2000), by Angelia H. Parham, Randy W. Carroll, and Daniel B. Fambro (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety of high speed ground transportation systems : crashworthiness testing of Amtrak's traditional coach seat / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ; [Springfield, VA : Available through the National Technical Information Service, 1996]), by David C. Tyrell, D. Severson, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.), and United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
Trains going by / (Chicago : A. Whitman & Co., 1940), by Mark Bartman and Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, Fuel Record Department. Tables of ton-miles and coal computations, ([Milwaukee?, c1905]), by William Morgan Harvey, Charles Foster Ludington, and Milwaukee Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
Study of merger alternatives : run-through trains : a report to the Rail Services Planning Office, Interstate Commerce Commission / (Washington : Interstate Commerce Commission, Rail Services Planning Office, 1977), by Washington Banks (R. L.) and Associates and United States. Rail Services Planning Office (page images at HathiTrust)
The train wire. A discussion of the science of train dispatching. (New York, Railroad Gazette, 1891), by J. A. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Train operation, (Rochester, N.Y., San Francisco, Cal., L. Brown, [c1916]), by William Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
Development of techniques and data for evaluating ride quality. Volume III: guidelines for development of ride quality models and their applications. Final report. (1978), by R. D. Pepler, L. L. Vallerie, Ira D. Jacobson, Richard W. Barber, and Larry G. Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
Development of techniques and data for evaluating ride quality. Volume II: ride-quality research. Final report. (1978), by R. D. Pepler, L. L. Vallerie, Ira D. Jacobson, Richard W. Barber, and Larry G. Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
Control on the railways, a study in methods. (London, G. Allen & Unwin, [1926]), by Philip Burtt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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