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• 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)

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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968), by K. Austin Kerr (page images at Pitt)
• Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1871), by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, and Francis Amasa Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Progress of the Union Pacific Railroad West from Omaha, Nebraska, Across the Continent, by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at MOA)
• Railroad Reorganization (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908), by Stuart Daggett (PDF at McMaster)
• Let Freedom Ride the Rails (1954), by National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways of Progress (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1910), by James J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies, by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• A Preliminary Railroad Survey in Wisconsin, 1857, by Andrew McFarland Davis (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Concrete Cross Tie and Fastener Loads (US Dept. of Transportation interim report; 1977), by R. H. Prause, H. D. Harrison, James C. Kennedy, and R. C. Arnlund (page images at HathiTrust)

• Benson Bidwell, Inventor of the Trolley Car, Electric Fan and Cold Motor: History of Early Struggles and Later Successes; With Personal Reminiscences, Lectures, Essays and Letters (Chicago: Henneberry Press, 1907), by Benson Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.