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• American Journal of Railway Appliances (partial serial archives)

• Specifications for Electric Locomotives Proposed for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1905), by General Electric Company, contrib. by New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fires in Mass Transit Vehicles: Report of the Committee on Toxicity Hazards of Materials Used in Transit Vehicles, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• From Slavery to Civil Rights: On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2020), by Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham (PDF at OAPEN)

• Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Investigation of the Causes of the Explosion of the Locomotive Engine, "Richmond", Near Reading, Pa., on the 2d Sept. 1844 (New York: Herald Book and Job Printing Office, 1844), by Dionysius Lardner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Locomotive Engineering, and The Mechanism of Railways: A Treatise on The Principles and Construction of The Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant, With Examples (2 volumes; London et al.: W. Collins, Sons, and Co., 1871), by Zerah Colburn and D. K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Locomotive Engine Running and Management (17th edition, 1890), by Angus Sinclair (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)

• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer, by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, illust. by Lynd Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Locomotive (partial serial archives)
• The Locomotive Engineer (1888-1891) (full serial archives)
• Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• Railway and Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)

• Modern Locomotive Valves and Valve Gears (Chicago: Griffin and Winters, 1918), by Chas. McShane
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Dilworth Story: The Biography of Richard Dilworth, Pioneer Developer of the Diesel Locomotive (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1954), by Franklin M. Reck (page images at HathiTrust)

• National Car and Locomotive Builder (full serial archives)
• National Car Builder (partial serial archives)
• The Railroad Car Journal (full serial archives)

• National Car Builder (partial serial archives)

• Description of an Artificial Hand (also includes his "Practical Remarks on Aerial Navigation" and "Essay on the Means of Promoting Safety in Railway Carriages"; London: Tyler and Reed, 1845), by George Cayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• Die Technik des Eisenbahnbetriebes in Bezug auf die Sicherheit Desselben (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1854), by Max Maria Weber
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Soil-Cement Laboratory Handbook (c1956), by Portland Cement Association (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)
• Roadtown (New York: Roadtown Press, c1910), by Edgar Chambless
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Great American Industries (4 volumes; Chicago: A. Flanagan, c1896-1914), by W. F. Rocheleau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Ferrocarril de Cochabamba al Chimoré: Propuesta Presentada al Suprema Govierno por Simón I. Patiño; Artículos de Comentario y Propaganda del Diario "El Ferrocarril"; Juicios Sobre la Conveniencia de Comunicar Bolivia con el Atlántico (in Spanish; Cochabamba: El Ferrocarril, 1911), by Simón Iturri Patiño
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Essays in Canadian Surface Transportation (1995), ed. by K. Filip Palda (HTML at Fraser Institute)
• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Energy and Equity, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Spatial Transportation Modeling (originally publised as Scientific Geography #5; c1985), by Christian Werner (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Western Montana (1913), by Western Montana Association of Commercial Clubs (Javascript-dependent page images at umt.edu)

• The Street Railway Journal (full serial archives)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Energy and Equity, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Flying Visits (electronic edition; contents differ slightly from print edition; 2011), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• The Wichert Truss (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1932), by D. B. Steinman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Omnibuses and Cabs: Their Origin and History (London: Chapman and Hall, 1902), by Henry Charles Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sustainable Freight Transport (special issue of Sustainability; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Lorant A. Tavasszy and Maja Piecyk (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)
• Freight Transportation for Profit (New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1946), by Henry B. Cooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• A Voyage From Australia to England (based on issues of "Dover Castle News" shipboard paper; London: Steam Press, 1867), by John G. Horsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday (London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, c1922), by Edmund Blunden
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Voyaging in Wild Seas: A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Snark" in the Years 1907-1908 (British edition of part of The Log of the Snark; London: Mills and Boon, n.d.), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

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