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• The Austin-Topolovampo Pacific survey (Philadelphia : H.C. Baird & Co., 1877., 1877), by Albert Kimsey Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Amtrak West fy 1996-2001 business plan. (Amtrak West, 1996), by Amtrak (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The railway and river systems of the city of St. Louis : with a brief statement of facts designed to demonstrate that St. Louis is rapidly becoming the food distributing center of the North American continent ; also a presentation of the great commercial and manufacturing establishments of St. Louis (Printed by Woodward, Tiernan & Hale, 1879), by L. U. Reavis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacific slope railroads, from 1854 to 1900. (Superior Pub. Co., 1959), by George B. Abdill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alta California rail-road guide (Fred. MacCrellish & Co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the western railroads : from 1852 through the reign of the giants. (Peter Smith, 1974), by Robert Edgar Riegel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new high line (San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 1900), by Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company San Pedro (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impact of coal land exchanges on value of Indian-owned coal : hearings before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session on the impact of coal land exchanges on value of Indian-owned coal, November 15, 21, 1983 and January 24, 1984, Washington, D.C. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transportation by steam from Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains : Reports of A.P. Robinson, esq. ... and Edw. Warner esq. ... (Wright & Potter, printers, 1865), by Overland Traction Engine Company, A. P. Robinson, and Edward Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six weeks in the West : protection to American industry, vs. British free trade : Irish nationality, and the Fenian brotherhood : The Pacific railway : Chicago to Omaha. (John A. Norton, 126 1/2 Dearborn Street, 1866), by George Francis Train and S. J. M. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of James H. Simpson on the change of route west from Omaha, Nebraska Territory (Govt. Print. Off., 1865), by J. H. Simpson, James Harlan, United States. President (1865-1869 : Johnson), and United States. Department of the Interior. Engineer Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Reilly, from the Committee on the Pacific Railroads, submitted the following report (to accompany H.R. 7798). ([Washington, D.C., 1894), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Pacific Railroads, James Bernard Reilly, and United States. Congress 1893-1894). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report for the calendar year ended ... (Western Pacific Railroad Company], 1917), by Western Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The guide from the Pacific to the Atlantic, 1878. (A.T. Sears and E. Webster, 1878), by A. T. Sears and Effie Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the president to the directors and stockholders for the year ending ... ([Missouri Pacific Railway Company], 1894), by Missouri Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plan of reorganization of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, dated January 27, 1922. ([New York, 1922), by Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature and extent of the obligations of the Pacific Railroad Companies to the government: in reference to the bonds issued by the United States in aid of the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and its branches (Gibson Brothers, 1871), by Eastern Division Union Pacific Railway, Effingham H. Nichols, and Union Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before the Interstate Commerce Commission : City of Spokane ... [and others], petitioners and complainants, vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company ... [and others], defendants; Canadian Pacific Railway Company ... [and others], defendants by order of commission; Pacific Coast Jobbers & Manufacturers' Association ... [and others], intervenors : reply brief of petitioners and complainants (Spokane : Inland Print. Co., [1907?], 1907), by Spokane (Wash.), H. M. Stephens, Pacific Coast Jobbers & Manufacturers' Association, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and Northern Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before the Interstate Commerce Commission : no. 879 : City of Spokane, Wash., et al., v. Northern Pacific Railway Company et al., decided February 9, 1909. ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1909], 1909), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Northern Pacific Railway Company, Spokane (Wash.), and United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts ... ; over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .... Vol. 1, 1878-1879 (Overland, 1878), by George A Crofutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the matter of increases in revenues of railroads in western classification territory. ([n.p., 1920), by S. M. Felton and United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To the people of Missouri (s.n., 1854), by David Rice Atchison and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A story of the battle for you and me ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [not after 1907]., in the 19th century), by Isaac Van Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the California and Texas Railway Construction Co. (Review Printing House, in the 19th century), by California and Texas Railway Construction Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlantic and Pacific railroad : A. Whitney's reply to the Hon. S.A. Douglass. (Publisher not identified, 1845), by Asa Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Western railroad mergers (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1969), by United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and United States. Federal Railroad Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An epoch in railway electrification. (General Electric Company, 1916), by General Electric Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Wreckers, by Francis Lynde, illust. by Arthur E. Becher (Gutenberg ebook)

• Extracts from the report of the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission (U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, 1888), by Robt. E. Pattison and United States. Pacific Railway Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the first mortage [sic] 30 years 6 per cent paramount lien bonds having priority over the subsidy bonds of the United States. Issued by and assigned to Charles Durkee from 1865 to 1869 by the Union and Kansas Pacific Railroad Co., and the Central and Western Pacific Railroad Company and by order and demand of President Johnson made on these railroads ... (Printed by Stoner & Hughes, 1912), by Jacob J. Souder and Charles Durkee (page images at HathiTrust)
• First mortgage five per cent, thirty-year gold bonds, due September 1, 1933 (Western Pacific Railroad Company, 1915), by Western Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The western [freight] classification. (Chicago., in the 19th century), by Western Classification Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad freight rate structures, western territory ... with special acknowledgment to the Traffic research staff of La Salle extension university ... (La Salle extension univ., 1926), by Wayne Edgar Butterbaugh and La Salle Extension University (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
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• The story of the Western railroads : from 1852 through the reign of the giants (University of Nebraska Press, 1977), by Robert Edgar Riegel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "The 17" (Washburn, 1929), by Edwin Chapin Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the report of the U.S. Pacific Railway Commission (U.S. Pacific Railway Commission, 1888), by Robt. E. Pattison and United States. Pacific Railway Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Western railroader, for the western railfan (J. Gibson and J. Carrick, in the 1930s), by Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society, San Francisco Railroad Boosters, and Northern California Railroad Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the president to the directors and stockholders (s.n.], 1911), by Missouri Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frisco-man : published monthly by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company. (St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., in the 20th century), by St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of a meeting of trans-continental lines (freight representatives) held at Chciago, Ill., December 6th, 1894. ([Chicago?, 1894), by Trans-Continental Freight Rate Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad freight rate structures, western territory ... with special acknowledgment to the Traffic research staff of La Salle extension university ... (La Salle extension univ., 1926), by Wayne Edgar Butterbaugh and La Salle Extension University (page images at HathiTrust)

• Time tables, scenic and historic highlights along the Feather River route (The Railroad, 1941), by Western Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Adequacies, passenger service, Southen Pacific Company between California and Louisiana. (Interstate Commerce Commission, 1969), by United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Before the Interstate Commerce Commission : City of Spokane ... [and others], petitioners and complainants, vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company ... [and others], defendants; Canadian Pacific Railway Company ... [and others], defendants by order of commission; Pacific Coast Jobbers & Manufacturers' Association ... [and others], intervenors : reply brief of petitioners and complainants (Spokane : Inland Print. Co., [1907?], 1907), by Spokane (Wash.), H. M. Stephens, Pacific Coast Jobbers & Manufacturers' Association, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and Northern Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before the Interstate Commerce Commission : no. 879 : City of Spokane, Wash., et al., v. Northern Pacific Railway Company et al., decided February 9, 1909. ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1909], 1909), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Northern Pacific Railway Company, Spokane (Wash.), and United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes from letters of Charles E. Bolton, A. M., written while lecturing in the Northwest. (Graves & Henry, printers], 1892), by Charles E. Bolton and Charles Knowles Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A souvenir of the trans-continental excursion of railroad agents, 1870 (Weed, Parsons, 1871), by One of the party (page images at HathiTrust)
• Along the Union Pacific Railroad (Dept. of Tours, Union Pacific, 1939), by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pacific tourist. J.R. Bowman's illustrated transcontinental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... (J.R. Bowman, 1882), by Frederick E. Shearer and J. R. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri river : six books in one volume ... (H. Bill Publishing Company, 1890), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacific Railroad of Missouri : the old established and most reliable route to Kansas, Nebraska, and all points on the Missouri River ; the most direct route to the newly discovered gold fields at Pike's Peak & Cherry Creek (N. Mumey, 1963), by Pacific Railroad Company and Nolie Mumey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts ... ; over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .... Vol. 1, 1878-1879 (Overland, 1878), by George A Crofutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time tables, scenic and historic highlights along the Feather River route (The Railroad, 1941), by Western Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wonderland junior. (Northern Pacific Railroad Company, 1892), by Northern Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderland junior. (Northern Pacific Railroad, 1895), by Northern Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three thousand miles in a railway car (Ringwalt & Brown, steam-power book and job press, nos. 111 and 113 South Fourth Street, 1867), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand summer and autumn tours to the Yellowstone National Park, Alaska : also the Great Lakes, the Pacific Northwest, the Canadian Rockies, Colorado, Utah and California with opportunity to visit the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland : leaving Boston, New York and Philadelphia July 8 and 21, August 12 and September 11, 1905 (Raymond & Whitcomb, 1905), by Inc Raymond-Whitcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yellowstone ([Burlington Route]:, 1927), by Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Chicago and Northern Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders: The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned, by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department and Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Department (Gutenberg ebook)

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