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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)
Reminiscences of Festus C. Currier, born at Holliston, Mass., October 6, 1825. (Fitchburg, Mass., 1900), by Festus Curtis Currier (page images at HathiTrust)
The Northern railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. (King's Crown Press, 1952), by Thomas Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1919), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1919), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
When railroads were new (H. Holt, 1909), by Charles Frederick Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
When railroads were new (H. Holt and company; [etc., etc.], 1910), by Charles Frederick Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad question; a historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses (The Schulte publishing company, 1893), by William Larrabee (page images at HathiTrust)
The Columbian traveller, and statistical register. : Principally relating to the United States. November 1833. (The author, 1833), by John Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
Official explorations for Pacific railroads (University of California Press, 1921), by George Leslie Albright (page images at HathiTrust)
The romance of the rails (R.M. McBride, 1929), by Agnes C. Laut (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of the railroad (Appleton, 1898), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Howard Douglas Dozier (page images at HathiTrust)
The Erie system. ([Wilbert Garrison co., printers], 1912), by George H. Minor (page images at HathiTrust)
Express history (For sale at the express offices throughout the United States, 1858), by A. L. Stimson (page images at HathiTrust)
Early opposition to the steam railroad ([New York, 1924), by Thurman William Van Metre (page images at HathiTrust)
Economic factors influencing railroad employment. (United States Railroad Retirement Board, Office of Director of Research, 1946), by United States Railroad Retirement Board and Maurice Parmelee (page images at HathiTrust)
Army operation of the rail transportation systems. (Washington, 1952), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
Transcontinental railway strategy, 1869-1893; a study of businessmen. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962), by Julius Grodinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
From covered wagon to streamliner (Greystone Press, 1941), by Edward Hungerford (page images at HathiTrust)
Railways and public opinion; eleven decades (Railway business association, 1941), by P. Harvey Middleton (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the railroads and canals of the United States. (J. H. Schultz, 1860), by Henry V. Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
A short history of American railways, covering ten decades. (Bureau of railway news & statistics, 1925), by Slason Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneer railroad : the story of the Chicago and North Western system (Whittlesey House, 1948), by Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
Abraham Lincoln and the Illinois Central Railroad, main line of mid-America; its organization, financing, and subsequent simplification of debt and capital structure through May 1955. (New York, 1955), by Edwin Sherwood Stowell Sunderland (page images at HathiTrust)
The growth and development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; a review of the charter and annual reports of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1846 to 1926, inclusive (Press of Allen, Lane & Scott], 1927), by H. W. Schotter (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad promotion and capitalization in the United States. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Frederick A. Cleveland and Fred Wilbur Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
The first international railway and the colonization of New England. Life and writings of John Alfred Poor. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by John A. Poor and Laura Elizabeth Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad jubilee : An account of the celebration commemorative of the opening of railroad communication between Boston and Canada, Sept. 17th, 18th, and 19th, 1851. (J. E. Eastburn, city printer, 1852), by Boston City Council (page images at HathiTrust)
One hundred years of American railroading. (Dodd, Mead & company, 1928), by John William Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
A century of progress : history of the Delaware and Hudson Company, 1823-1923. (J.B. Lyon, 1925), by Delaware and Hudson Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of the railroad (D. Appleton and company, 1903), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the express business, including the origin of the railway system in America, and the relation of both to the increase of new settlements and the prosperity of cities in the United States (Baker & Godwin, printers, 1881), by A. L. Stimson (page images at HathiTrust)
A Congressional history of railways in the United States to 1850 ... (Madison, Wis., 1908), by Lewis H. Haney (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical sketch of the growth of transportation by steam railroads in the United States, submitted February 1922 to the Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry, 67th United States Congress. Senate Concurrent resolution no. 4. ([Place of publication not identified], 1922), by Louis Eugene Wettling and United States. Congress. Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les chemins de fer et les pouvoirs publics aux États-Unis. Thèse pour le doctorat. L'acte public sur les matières ei-après sera soutenu le samedi 23 janvier 1909, à une heure et demie (Imprimerie Crété, 1909), by André Jarry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die eisenbahnen der Vereinigten Staaten in gemeinwirtschaftspolitischer hinsicht ... (Verlag der Hochschulbuchhandlung Krische & co., 1927), by Fred Ledermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
With a cinder in my eye; a layman's memories and sketches of American trains. (Moline, Ill., 1951), by Kenneth Wentworth Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroads of the hour. (Coward-McCann, 1958), by S. Kip Farrington (page images at HathiTrust)
The trans-continental railway : remarks at Rutland, Vermont, June 24, 1869 (Publisher not identified], 1869), by John A. Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Gesetz der Bevölkerung und die Eisenbahnen : eine volkswirthschaftliche und statistische Untersuchung geführt auf dem Terrain der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika und als Vorbild deutscher Verhältnisse volkswirthschaftlich verwerthet mit Berücksichtigung und statistischem Nachweis des besondern Charakters der Industrie und des Handels der einzelnen Staaten sowohl, wie der gesammten Union vom Jahre 1790-1860 (F.A. Herbig, 1867), by Georg Eduard Wiss (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the great riots. Being a full and authentic account of the strikes and riots on the various railroads of the United States and in the mining regions. Embracing brilliant and graphic pen-pictures of the reign of terror in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, and other cities. The conflicts between the troops and the mob. Terrible conflagrations and destruction of property. Thrilling scenes and incidents, etc., etc. Together with a full history of the Mollie Maguires (National publishing company, 1877), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
Through by rail (Macmillan, 1938), by Charles Gilbert Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the directors of internal improvement on the subject of tail roads, transmitted to the legislature, January session, 1830. (Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the state, 1830), by Massachusetts. Directors of Internal Improvement, Edward H. Robbins, Stephen H. Long, and James Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
Historic railroads (Macrae Smith Company, 1927), by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
When railroads were new (Simmons-Boardman publishing co., 1926), by Charles Frederick Carter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotives and locomotive building, being a brief sketch of the growth of the railroad system and of the various improvements in locomotive building in America together with a history of the origin and growth of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, New Jersey, from 1831 to 1886 ... (Gottsberger, 1886), by Paterson Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works and Matthias N. Forney (page images at HathiTrust)
Inland transportation : principles and policies (McGraw-Hill, 1933), by Sidney Lincoln Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
In the Circuit Court of the United States, Northern District of Illinois, United States of America, complainant, vs. Eugene V. Debs et al., respondents, in chancery : proceedings on information for attachment for contempt. (Barnard & Hornstein Printers, 1894), by Eugene V. Debs and United States. Circuit Court (Illinois : Northern District) (page images at HathiTrust)
Development of the railroads of North America and of their control by the state ([n.p., 1911), by James Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Golden jubilee of the city of Garrett : address (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?, 1924), by Daniel Willard and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Transportation. (Washington, 1902), by William Zebina Ripley (page images at HathiTrust)
Charters, articles of incorporation, deeds, consolidations, mortgages, leases, decrees, etc. (The Company, 1929), by Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Chicago and W. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
An address by Daniel Willard ... before the student body of Massachusetts agricultural college, Amherst, Mass., March 16, 1921. ([Baltimore?, 1921), by Daniel Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders : a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale university press ;, 1919), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses ([New York?, 1910), by Grenville Mellen Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
Builders of the nation. The railroad. (Brampton Society, 1908), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters ... (J. T. Lloyd & Co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd, Robert Fulton, and John Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
The first international railway and the colonization of New England. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890), by John A. Poor and Laura Elizabeth Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power ; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton...history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ; full accounts of all the steamboat disaster ; a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes, maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ; lists of plantations on the Mississippi River ; one hundred engravings and forty six maps (J.T. Lloyd & Co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
Early day railroading from Chicago : a narration with some observations (D.B. CLarkson Co., 1910), by De Witt Clinton Prescott (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad (The Brampton society, publishers, 1908), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
Report to the stockholders of the Delaware and Hudson canal company (P. Barnes, 1877), by Delaware and Hudson Canal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Records of the New England Association of Railway Superintendents : organized in Boston, Massachusetts April 5, 1848, dissolved October 1, 1857. (Gibson Bros., 1910), by New-England Association of Railroad Superintendents and Eastern Railroad Association. Executive Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (J. T. Lloyd & co.;, 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
America's first railroad (s.n., 1925), by Samuel Harden Church (page images at HathiTrust)
The highways of commerce. Part 1: The paths of inland commerce, by Archer B. Hulbert. Part 2: The railroad builders (Yale university press; [etc., etc., 1920), by Archer Butler Hulbert and John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
Golden Spike National Monument : hearing ... Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 26. May 19, 1965. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation (page images at HathiTrust)
The Railroad Builders. A chronicle of the welding of the States. [With plates and maps.]. (Yale University Press, 1920), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
Address by W.J. Harahan at the annual dinner of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, Huntington, West Virginia, Friday, May 12, 1922. ([Huntington? W. Va.], 1922), by W. J. Harahan (page images at HathiTrust)
Quiz on railroads and railroading : 450 questions and answers. (Association of American Railroads, 1947), by Association of American Railroads (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Chicago and North Western Railway (Passenger Dept., Chicago & North-Western Railway, 1905), by Frank H. Spearman and Chicago and North Western Railway Company. Passenger Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ... History of all the rail roads in the United States ... One hundred fine engravings, and sixty maps ... (J.T. Lloyd & co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
Our American railroads : today and tomorrow (Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1935), by Leonor Fresnel Loree (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Autobiography and reminiscences (Printed by M. Robinson, 1899), by H. T. Welles (page images at HathiTrust)
Some features in the history of the Burlington Road (The Henry D. Shepard Co., 1906), by W. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad promotion and capitalization in the United States (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Frederick Albert Cleveland and Fred Wilbur Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
A Congressional history of railways in the United States to 1850. (Library Resources, 1908), by Lewis Henry Haney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Congressional history of railways in the United States to 1850 ... (Madison, Wis., 1908), by Lewis H. Haney (page images at HathiTrust)
The one hundreth anniversary, 1826--April 17--1926 of the New York Central Railroad. (Knickerbocker Press, 1926), by New York Central Railroad Company (1914-1968) (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders : a chronicle of the welding of the states (United States Publisers Association, inc., 1919), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
Lo sviluppo della rete ferroviaria degli Stati Uniti e le sue variagioni (Fratelli Bosca, 1898), by L. Barberis (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1920), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
The first international railway and the colonization of New England life and writings of John Alfred Poor (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by John A. Poor and Laura Elizabeth Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the Northern Pacific Railroad (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Eugene V. Smalley (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of the railroad (D. Appleton, 1898), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
The railroad builders a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale University Press ;, 1919), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The railroad, the conqueror (The State company, 1913), by Theodore D. Jervey (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the great riots : Being a bull and authentic account of the strikes and riots on the various railroads of the United States and in the mining regions. Embracing brilliant and graphic pen-pictures of the reign of terror in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, and other cities. The conflicts between the troops and the mob. Terrible conflagrations and destruction of property. Thrilling scenes and incidents, etc., etc. Together with a full history of the Molly Maguires (National Publishing Co., 1877), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
Baltimore and Ohio railroad corporate histories ... (The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Valuation Department, 1922), by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Office of Valuation Engineer and United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Dead-heads (Printed by Rand, Avery and Company ;, 1874), by Charles W. Felt (page images at HathiTrust)
The Railroad builders ; a chronicle of the welding of the states (Yale University Press, 1921), by John Moody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The great locomotive chase : a history of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 (Penn Pub. Co., 1921), by William Pittenger (page images at HathiTrust)
The recession of the frontier ([Lincoln, Neb.], 1924), by Hallie Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroads : their origin and problems (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1879), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Highlights of American railroad history. (Washington, 1955), by Association of American Railroads. Illus. by Lary Gaynor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historical sketches of early railroading days. (Sammons Print. Co., 1961), by William A. Schultz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Quiz on railroads and railroading. (Association of American Railroads, 1953), by Association of American Railroads (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Quiz on railroads and railroading (The Association, 1950), by Association of American Railroads (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railroads from the investors view point : an outline of the history of the railroads up to the present time, and of facts to be considered in purchasing railroad investments. (Federal Securities Corp., 1921), by Federal Securities Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
Transportation and communication (The Service, 1960), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
Express office handbook and directory (Printed and Published by John K. Stimson, 1860), by A. L. Stimson (page images at HathiTrust)
The beginning of the mechanical transport era in America (Smithsonian Institution, 1929), by Carl Weaver Mitman and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
Southern Pacific's first century (Southern Pacific Co., 1955), by Southern Pacific Company. Public Relations Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The day of two noons. (Association of American Railroads, 1959), by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Army operation of the rail transportation systems pursuant to Executive Orders nos. 10141 and 10155 (The Office, 1952), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad communication with the Pacific : with an account of the Central Pacific Railroad of California: the character of the work, its progress, resources, earnings and future prospects, and the advantage of its first mortgage bonds. New York, September, 1867. (George Brown, printer, 1867), by Fisk & Hatch, Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library), and Central Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
American railroads; their growth and development (Association of American Railroads, 1958), by Association of American Railroads (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A short history of American railways : covering ten decades (Appleton, 1925), by Slason Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Quiz on railroads and railroading : 400 questions, 400 answers. ([Association of American Railroads], 1940), by Association of American Railroads (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Congressional history of railways in the United States to 1850 ... (Madison, Wis., 1908), by Lewis H. Haney (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the express companies: and the origin of American railroads. Together with some reminiscences of the latter days of the mail coach and baggage wagon business in the United States. (New York., 1859), by A. L. Stimson (page images at HathiTrust)
Forty years a locomotive engineer : thrilling tales of the rail (Charles H. O'Neil, 1915), by J. Harvey Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
Are American railroads overcapitalized? ([Philadelphia] : The Works, [1913], 1913), by Alba B. Johnson and Baldwin Locomotive Works (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of the first trans-continental railroad : its projectors, construction, and history, by William Francis Bailey (Gutenberg ebook)

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