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• Rail transportation in the United States

• 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)

• Directory and Guide of Florida Railways for Shippers, 1920-1921 (Javascript-dependent page images at flvc.org)

• Railroad Workers Forward! (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)
• 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)
• The Railroaders' Next Step: Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #1; second edition; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Railroad Reorganization (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908), by Stuart Daggett (PDF at McMaster)

• 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)

• 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)

• Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (page images at mpl.org)

• 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)

• Railroad Passenger Train Deficit (docket #31954; ca. 1959), by United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Railway Review (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Railway Association of America (partial serial archives)
• The Frisco Employes' Magazine (published under that title starting in 1923), by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (partial serial archives)
• The Frisco-Man (published under that title from the early 1900s through the early 1920s; with some earlier Frisco system periodical issues), by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (partial serial archives)
• Southern Pacific Bulletin (volumes from 1918-1921 readable online in the US), by Southern Pacific Company (partial serial archives)

• Railroad Safety: U.S.-Canadian Comparison (OTA-T-95; 1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Evaluation of Railroad Safety (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Locating the Iron Trail (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1925), by Edward Gillette (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freight Car Distribution and Car Handling in the United States (Washington: Association of American Railroads, Car Service Division, c1956), by Eugene W. Coughlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Travelers Legal Guide and Business Man's Directory: Being the Duties of Railroad Companies, and Steamboat and Stage-Coach Proprietors, in the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, and Other Property, And Their Responsibilities Relative To Accidents, Injuries to, and the Loss of Property, etc. (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1855), by Alexander S. Davis (page images at Ohio Memory)

• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968), by K. Austin Kerr (page images at Pitt)
• The Financial Viability of CONRAIL: Review and Analysis (1975), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Monopolies and the People (third edition, 1873), by D. C. Cloud (page images at MOA)
• The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (reprint; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1963), by Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 (Harvard Historical Studies v19; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913), by Solon J. Buck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of the Grange Movement: or, The Farmer's War Against Monopolies, by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• 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 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)

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

• The Railroaders' Next Step: Amalgamation (Labor Herald Library #1; second edition; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1922), by William Z. Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Railroad Workers Forward! (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster (PDF at flvc.org)

• Development of the Written Test to Select Claims Examiners for the Railroad Retirement Board (Washington: U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Office of Staffing Policy, Test Examining Division, 1985), by Mary Anne Nester and Donald E. McCauley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The State of U.S. Railroads: A Review of Capacity and Performance Data (2008), by Brian A. Weatherford, Henry H. Willis, and David Ortiz (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• An Evaluation of Railroad Safety (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

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