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• Correspondence Between the President of the Virginia Central Rail Road Company and the Postmaster General, in Relation to Postal Services (Richmond, VA: Printed by Ritchie and Dunnavant, 1864), by Virginia Central Railroad Company
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Implications of Electronic Mail and Message Systems for the U.S. Postal Service (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Post Office Ban on "Revolutionary Age" (1931), by American Civil Liberties Union (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by G. C. Widney (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by G. C. Widney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mike Flannery On Duty and Off (Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1909), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by G. C. Widney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Friarswood Post-Office, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Dictionnaire des Postes: Contenant le Nom de Toutes les Villes, Bourgs, Paroisses, Abbayes, et Principaux Châteaux du Royaume de France et du Duché de Lorraine (in French; Paris: Chez la veuve Delatour, 1754), by Edme-Gilles Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire Géographique des Postes aux Lettres de Tous les Départemens de la République Française (3 volumes in French; Paris: Impr. de Valade, 1802), by A. F. Lecousturier and F. Chaudouet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance (second edition: Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1885), by James Wilson Hyde (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Post Haste: A Tale of Her Majesty's Mails, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America: Compiled, Revised, and Published in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1891 (Washington: GPO, 1893), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das Nachrichtenwesen des Altertums, mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf die Römer (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Wolfgang Riepl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ivar: or, The Skjuts-Boy (London: Office of the Illustrated London Library, 1852), by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, trans. by A. L. Krause, illust. by Edmund Evans (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• List of Post Offices in the United States (1859), by United States Post Office Department (page images at MOA)
• Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General, on the Opening and Present Condition of the United States Overland Mail Route Between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California, by Isaiah Churchill Woods (page images at MOA)
• Ten Years Among the Mail Bags (Philadelphia: H. Cowperthwait and Co., 1855), by James Holbrook (page images at MOA)
• The Panama Route, 1848-1869 (University of California Publications in History v29; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943), by John Haskell Kemble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London (Washington: Gideon and Co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• The Express Companies of the United States: A Study of a Public Utility (New York: Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1919), by Bertram Benedict, contrib. by Harry W. Laidler
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Overland Routes to the Pacific: The Butterfield Contract (1859), by Republican Association of Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of the Pony Express: An Account of the Most Remarkable Mail Service Ever in Existence, and Its Place in History, by Glenn D. Bradley (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Erris in the "Irish Highlands", and the "Atlantic Railway" (Dublin: M. Keene and son; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co., 1836), by P. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad Electrification (East Pittsburgh, PA: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 1914), by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Railway and Lighting Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Watson-Parker Law: The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism (Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1927), by William Z. Foster
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• Étude sur les Signaux des Chemins de Fer Français (second edition, in French; Paris: Dunod, 1883), by Mr. Brame and Louis Aguillon (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
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Bagdad Railway: Convention of March 5, 1903; Statutes of Imperial Bagdad Railway Company; Specification; Loan Contract, First Series 1903; Loan Contract, Second and Third Series 1908; Additional Convention of June 2, 1908 (presented to the UK parliament; London: HMSO, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Erris in the "Irish Highlands", and the "Atlantic Railway" (Dublin: M. Keene and son; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co., 1836), by P. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trains at Work (Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1953), by Mary Elting, illust. by David Millard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The First Book of Trains (published under "Campbell Tatham" pseudonym; New York, F. Watts, c1948), by Mary Elting, illust. by Jeanne Bendick (page images at HathiTrust)
• All About Railways: A Book for Boys (London et al.: Cassell and Co., ca. 1911), by F. S. Hartnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lake Superior Railroad, by Morgan L. Drake (page images at MOA)

• Hints on the Internal Improvement of North Carolina (page images at MOA)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• Railway and Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• American Railroad Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Railroad Car Journal (full serial archives)
• Railroad Digest (full serial archives)
• American Journal of Railway Appliances (partial serial archives)
• The Locomotive Engineer (1888-1891) (full serial archives)
• Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• Marine and Railway Gazette (partial serial archives)
• The Railroad and Engineering Journal (full serial archives)
• Railroad Man's Magazine (partial serial archives)

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