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• How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

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

• Wisconsin Rapids Bridge History, by Theodore W. Brazeau (page images at mpl.org)

• 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 Short Line War, by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

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

• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Die Sächsischen Eisenbahnen in Historisch-Statistischer Darstellung (in German; Leipzig: T. Thomas, ca. 1902), by Albert Wiedemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (1831), by Joseph Priestley (HTML at jim-shead.com)
• 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)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sapbush Run: An Informal History of the Black River and Utica Railroad (Boonville, NY: Black River Books, 1948), by Thomas C. O'Donnell, contrib. by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad by William Seward Webb, 1891-92 (Norwood, MA: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Howard Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A History of Railroads in Tompkins County (third edition, 2008), by Hardy Campbell Lee, Winton Rossiter, and John Marcham (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1977), by Carl W. Condit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948, by Zachary Lockman (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)

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

• Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (page images at mpl.org)

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; With Special Reference to the Life of Alexander F. Whitney (New York: A. and C. Boni, c1936), by Walter Flavius McCaleb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• Lives of the Engineers: Metcalfe-Telford; History of Roads (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1987), by Bruce Edsall Seely (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1987), by Bruce Edsall Seely (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• Queen of the Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat (Maryland Historical Society Fund Publication #5; Baltimore: Printed by J. Murphy, 1871), by John H. B. Latrobe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steam-Boat (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1857), by Thompson Westcott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin MacMillan Coates (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Paths of Inland Commerce: A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg text)

• The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (4th volume in "Economic History of the United States" series; New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1951), by George Rogers Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.