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  • Remembering Crawford County

    Pennsylvania's Last Frontier

    by Robert D. Ilisevich ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    When George Washington ventured into northwestern Pennsylvania in 1753 to confront the French, he discovered anuntouched land of extensive, rich meadows'Pennsylvania's last frontier. Thirty-five years later, the first group of settlers moved into the territory, where they encountered western tribes of Native Americans and vicious battles over land claims. As the wake of the Industrial Revolution ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream

    The Story of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad

    Edited by Peter K. Gifford, Robert D. Ilisevich ...
    The Atlantic & Great Western Railroad was one of the earliest and largest east-west railroad projects in the United States. It was the dream of American builders William Reynolds of Pennsylvania and Marvin Kent of Ohio. By using the non-standard six-foot gauge, these men helped construct a trunk line connecting the Atlantic tidewater with the Mississippi River "without break of gauge." Money for ... Read more

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  • British Railways in the 1950s and ’60s

    by Greg Morse ...
    Series Book 699 - Shire Library
    As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport.After attempting to maintain pre-war networks and technology in the 1950s, a reversal of policy in the 1960s brought line closures, new ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Rails Across Ontario

    Exploring Ontario's Railway Heritage

    by Ron Brown ...
    Rails Across Ontario will take the reader back to a time when the railway ruled the economy and the landscape.Read about historic stations, railway museums, heritage train rides, and historic bridges. Follow old rail lines along Ontario's most popular rail trails. Find out where steam engines still puff across farm fields and where historic train coaches lead deep into the wilds of Ontario's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tube

    Station to Station on the London Underground

    by Oliver Green ...
    From Norman Foster's remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London's tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales will be boosted even further by the much-loved network's 150th anniversary ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A History of the Great Western Railway

    by Colin Maggs, MBE ...
    The story of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.The initials ‘GWR’ conjure an evocative picture of a Brunswick green locomotive hauling tea-and-cream-coloured coaches through a verdant West Country landscape. But the GWR was not just engines and trains.In this comprehensive history, Colin Maggs, one of the country’s foremost railway historians, tells of other, perhaps less ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Henry Edward Huntington: Connoisseur Of Fine Books And Art

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The Huntington in San Marino, California, is one of the world's foremost collections of books, art and flora. Set in park-like grounds and a Beaux-Arts mansion built in the early 1900s, the Huntington boasts some of the rarest and most valuable artifacts on Earth from the Gutenberg Bible on vellum, the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • British Rail

    The Nation's Railway

    by Tanya Jackson ...
    British Rail was a success. British Rail is a contentious company, as controversial as Dr Beeching and his axe. However, this examination of BR's passenger services shows just how vital the organisation was. It successfully carried millions of commuters to and from their jobs every day; organised its trunk route services to yield a profit under the brand name 'Inter-City'; and pioneered world ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London Underground Electric Train

    by Piers Connor ...
    The London Underground Electric Train tells the story of the development of electric traction on the London Underground system. It combines technical knowledge, historical context and practical experiences, and covers the history of underground lines since the opening of the first deep-level underground rail system in the world in 1890: the City & South London Railway. The evolution of train ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Voices from the Railways

    How the railways changed our lives

    by Holland, Julian ...
    Containing over 70 first-hand accounts, 'Voices from the Railways' gives fresh insight into the social changes brought about by our railways. The anecdotes gathered within this book include William Wordsworth's complaint about a proposed line through the Lake District, an engine driver's reward for transporting Queen Victoria, a signalman's brush with Winston Churchill, a anonymous poem about a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Blue Ridge Tunnel

    A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia

    by Mary E. Lyons ...
    The true story of the construction of the historic Crozet railroad tunnel—as seen through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it.In one of the greatest engineering feats of the time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. More than a century and a half later, the tunnel stands as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, but the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and ‘60s

    by Greg Morse ...
    Series Book 825 - Shire Library
    A beautifully illustrated guide to the trains that took over as the Age of Steam was drawing to a close in the 1950s. Ideal for anyone interested in Britain's railways and the evolution of rail transport.After the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britain's railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD