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• 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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• 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)

• 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)

• Competing with the Government: Anticompetitive Behavior and Public Enterprises, ed. by R. Richard Geddes (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• American Railroad Politics, 1914-1920: Rates, Wages, and Efficiency (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1968), by K. Austin Kerr (page images at Pitt)
• Let Freedom Ride the Rails (1954), by National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.