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• 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)

• Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by James M. Brophy (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• Political Reform in Wisconsin: A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation, and Railway Regulation (1910), by Emanuel L. Philipp, contrib. by Edgar T. Wheelock (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Eisenbahn-Verkehrsordnung vom 26 Oktober 1899, Gültig vom 1 Januar 1900 ab (Reichs-Gesetzblatt 1899 Nr. 41) (Berlin: J. Springer, 1899), by Reichs-Eisenbahn-Amt (Germany)
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some graphics may be omitted
  • with supplements; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Facts for the People: A Report of the Anti-Monopoly League of the State of New York, the Record of the Legislature of 1883 (page images at MOA)

• An Act Authorising the Governor to Incorporate the Philadelphia and Trenton Rail Road Company; Also, the Supplements and the Ordinances of the Districts Relating Thereto, &c. (Philadelphia: J. Rakestraw, printer, 1836), by Pennsylvania (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)

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

• A Labor Catechism of Political Economy, by C. Osborne Ward (page images at MOA)
• The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph, by David A. Wells (page images at MOA)
• The Telegraph Monopoly (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1899), by Frank Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (Washington: World Bank and International Finance Corporation, 2002), by Stoyan Tenev, Chunlin Zhang, and Loup Berfort (PDF at worldbank.org)

• Socialism in Western Europe (Headline Series #71; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1948), by Herbert Heaton and Alvin Saunders Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Herrick Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• Government Telephones: The Experience of Manitoba, Canada (c1916), by James Mavor (PDF at McMaster)

• Plutocracy or Nationalism: Which? (an extra of The Nationalist; 1889), by Edward Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and Purposes of Nationalism: Edward Bellamy's Address at Tremont Temple, Boston, on the Nationalist Club's First Anniversary, Dec. 19, 1889, by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Programme of the Nationalists (Philadelphia: Bureau of Nationalist Literature, 1894), by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Progress and Robbery, and Progress and Justice: An Answer to Henry George, the Demi-Communist (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1887), by J. Bleecker Miller
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The City for the People: or, The Municipalization of the City Government and of Local Franchises (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1900), by Frank Parsons
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Authorizing the President to Take Over Metalliferous Mines: Hearings Before the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives. September 18, 1917 (Washington: GPO, 1917), by United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, contrib. by Jeannette Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Land Nationalisation, Its Necessity and Its Aims: Being a Comparison of the System of Landlord and Tenant with That of Occupying Ownership in Their Influence on the Well-being of the People, by Alfred Russel Wallace (HTML at wku.edu)
• Some Social Remedies: Socialism, Anarchy, Henry Georgism and the Land Question, Communism, Etc. (Christchurch: Free Age Press, 1900), by Leo Tolstoy (bound with other pamphlets: multiple formats at archive.org)

• Collectivization and its Impact on the Ukrainian Population and on Soviet Agricultural Productivity: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session, November 15, 1983 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Essays in Canadian Surface Transportation (1995), ed. by K. Filip Palda (HTML at Fraser Institute)

• The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1983), by Paul F. Barrett (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities (open access edition; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Govind Gopakumar (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion (Special Report 242, 1994), by National Research Council Transportation Research Board and National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (2005), by National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density (HTML and page images at NAP)

• The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Mark H. Rose, Bruce Edsall Seely, and Paul F. Barrett (PDF at Ohio State)

• An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit (12 volumes; 1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume 1 (Summary): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2 (Atlanta Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 3 (Boston Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 4 (Chicago Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 5 (Denver Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 6 (Los Angeles Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 7 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 8 (San Francisco Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 9 (Seattle Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 10 (Washington, DC Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 11 (Technical Report): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 12 (Bibliography): PDF files at Princeton

• 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)

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