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  • The 1852 Guide to the Great Western Railway

    by George Measom ...
    When George Measom wrote his bestselling Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway in 1852, Brunel’s railway line between London and Bristol had been fully opened just eleven years. The Great Exhibition of the previous year had attracted six million visitors, many of whom had travelled to it by rail. This was the true Age of the Train. His guide is alive with an atmosphere of bustle and steam ... Read more

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  • Rails Across the Prairies

    The Railway Heritage of Canada’s Prairie Provinces

    by Ron Brown ...
    Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their ... Read more

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  • Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway

    The Complete History

    by Jacob R. Mecklenborg ...
    What of those ghostly catacombs that lie dormant below city streets? Those subway tunnels, never finished, never filled with the screeches of trains and the busy commotion of commuters. Just there. Dead. You've heard of the subway's demise. The tunnels were too narrow. The city was too broke. A grand miscalculation. Well, most of what you've heard is, sorry to say, untrue. The popular story of the ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told

    Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension

    by Seth H. Bramson ...
    All aboard for the history of one of the most audacious and innovative railroad engineering feats in history from the celebrated Floridian author.Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler made the decision to extend the Florida East Coast ... Read more

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  • Rails Over the Mountains

    Exploring the Railway Heritage of Canada's Western Mountains

    by Ron Brown ...
    Journey through the engineering marvels, stations, and heritage sites of Canada’s western mountains.Ride the rails through Canada’s western mountains to explore the many vestiges of the region’s spectacular and surprising railway heritage. Here is where grand railway hotels were built to attract tourists to the West’s beautiful scenery and bring profit to the railway lines as well. Rustic stations ... Read more

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  • Southeastern Pennsylvania Trolleys

    by Kenneth C. Springirth ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    An extensive number of trolley car lines linked the city of Philadelphia to the rich farmland and picturesque towns of southeastern Pennsylvania. These trolley lines traversed miles of narrow streets lined with row houses whose residents were proud working-class Americans. These historic photographs trace the trolley cars� routes, including Route 23, the region�s longest urban trolley route, from ... Read more

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  • Brooklyn Streetcars

    by Branford Electric Railway Association ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    In the summer of 1854, the Brooklyn City Railroad opened four separate streetcar lines. The lines were introduced here several years before they were brought to larger cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia, demonstrating the city�s modernization and ingenuity. From its first introduction, Brooklyn had one of the nation�s largest urban transit systems. With the advent of streetcars, ... Read more

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  • The Lehigh Valley Railroad across New Jersey

    by Ralph A. Heiss ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Constructed as the Easton and Amboy Railroad, opened by 1875, the Lehigh Valley Railroad was instrumental in developing commerce and communities of central New Jersey. Thout it no longer runs, it was originally built to haul unending trains of "black diamonds" from Pennsylvania to Perth Amboy, the Lehigh Valley Railroad became so much more than a conduit for shipping coal. In building across the ... Read more

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  • Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

    by Kenneth C. Springirth ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Andrew Carnegie�s vision of transporting iron ore from his boats on Lake Erie to his Pittsburgh steel mills was realized when he obtained ownership of a series of railroad companies in the region. In 1900, these companies became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, which connected the Lake Erie ports of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Conneaut, Ohio, south to North Bessemer near Pittsburgh. Through ... Read more

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  • Central of Georgia Railway

    by Jackson McQuigg, Tammy Galloway, Scott McIntosh, Atlanta History Center ...
    Series series Images of America
    Organized in 1833 by Savannah businessmen, the Central of Georgia Railway was chartered by the Georgia Legislature as the Central Rail Road & Canal Company. The line, connecting Savannah to the interior of the state, boosted the coastal city's seaport, which had lost business to Charleston because of the South Carolina Rail Road's inland reach. In 1843, the Central was extended from Savannah to ... Read more

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  • Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway

    by Leonard E. Alwine, David W. Seidel ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Dating back to 1882, the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway has humble origins, but it quickly became a viable transportation system serving the city of Altoona. Often referred to as the Logan Valley, the railway employed 300 people, transported 11.5 million passengers a year, and traveled 7,220 scheduled route miles a day until economic conditions forced the line to discontinue service on ... Read more

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  • California's Capitol Corridor

    by Matthew Gerald Vurek ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    The "Capitol Corridor" is the name of the Amtrak passenger train route between California's capital, Sacramento, and San Jose, the state's first capital upon admission to the Union in 1850. The scenery between these two areas highlights vastly different land uses; examples include an industrialized shoreline covered with a forest of petroleum refineries, urban areas transitioning from industrial ... Read more

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