Railroads -- History
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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
- The Short Line War, by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg text)
- The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
- Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)
- Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
- Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
- 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)
- An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
- La Autonomía de los Ferrocarriles del Estado: Discurso Pronunciado por el Senador por Ñuble, Don Gonzalo Urrejola, Sesiones del 18, 19 y 22 de Enero de 1917 (in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: La Ilustración, 1917), by Gonzalo Urrejola (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Sächsischen Eisenbahnen in Historisch-Statistischer Darstellung (in German; Leipzig: T. Thomas, ca. 1902), by Albert Wiedemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; et al., 1831), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Sapbush Run: An Informal History of the Black River and Utica Railroad (Boonville, NY: Black River Books, 1948), by Thomas C. O'Donnell, contrib. by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
- Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad by William Seward Webb, 1891-92 (Norwood, MA: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Howard Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- A History of Railroads in Tompkins County (third edition, 2008), by Hardy Campbell Lee, Winton Rossiter, and John Marcham (PDF with commentary at Cornell)
- The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1977), by Carl W. Condit (PDF at Ohio State)
- Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)
- Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Aaron W. Marrs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Railroad Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody (Gutenberg text)
- An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)
- The Truth About "American Ground Transport": A Reply by General Motors (1974), by General Motors Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Trolley Through the Countryside (Denver: Sage Books, 1963), by Allison Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (page images at mpl.org)
- Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)
- 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)
- Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by David M. Vrooman (PDF at Ohio State)
- 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)
- 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
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Railroads- 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)
- 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)
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