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• 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)

• BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension, Final Environmental Impact Report/Final Environmental Impact Statement: Executive Summary (1996), by United States Federal Transit Administration, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.), and San Mateo County Transit District (Calif.), contrib. by United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Federal Highway Administration, and United States Federal Aviation Administration (multiple formats at archive.org)

• BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension, Final Environmental Impact Report/Final Environmental Impact Statement: Executive Summary (1996), by United States Federal Transit Administration, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.), and San Mateo County Transit District (Calif.), contrib. by United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Federal Highway Administration, and United States Federal Aviation Administration (multiple formats at archive.org)

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)

• 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)

• Erris in the "Irish Highlands", and the "Atlantic Railway" (Dublin: M. Keene and son; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co., 1836), by P. Knight (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)

• Bagdad Railway: Convention of March 5, 1903; Statutes of Imperial Bagdad Railway Company; Specification; Loan Contract, First Series 1903; Loan Contract, Second and Third Series 1908; Additional Convention of June 2, 1908 (presented to the UK parliament; London: HMSO, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Erris in the "Irish Highlands", and the "Atlantic Railway" (Dublin: M. Keene and son; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co., 1836), by P. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Instructions for the Running of Trains, etc., on the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, to Take Effect July 1, 1872 (Meadville, PA: Republican Steam Printing House, 1872), by Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Route Surveying (third edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1949), by George Wellington Pickels and Carroll Carson Wiley (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.