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  • The Long Island Rail Road in Early Photographs

    by Ron Ziel ...
    Series series Dover Transportation
    Fascinating text-and-photo documentary details economic, social upheaval following inauguration of Long Island Rail Road's service in 1844. 225 rare photos provide splendid views of early coaches, locomotives, snow-removal operations, stations, passengers, crew, much more. Extensive captions. ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • American Locomotives in Historic Photographs

    1858 to 1949

    Edited by Ron Ziel ...
    Series series Dover Transportation
    This rare collection of 126 "builder portraits" of American locomotives offers an exciting cavalcade of images that chronicle the momentous rise of steam locomotive power in America. Builder portraits are especially prized by railway historians because they are the exacting official photographs of new models taken before repairs, alterations, and weathering altered their original appearance. The ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

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  • Railroads and the American People

    by H. Roger Grant ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    "[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse" ( The Wall Street Journal).In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," from 1830 to 1930. He explores four fundamental topics—trains and travel, train stations, railroads and community life, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Railroad Advertising

    Riding the Rails Again

    by Tad Burness ...
    Relive the glory years of American railroadingReturn to an era when passenger trains represented the height of luxury and riding the rails was the only way to travel. Classic Railroad Advertising covers nearly a century of memories - of powerful steam locomotives and elegant streamliners, of the brute force of diesel power and the patriotic effort to keep America on the move during a tumultuous ... Read more

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  • The Pennsylvania Railroad: A Brief Look in Time

    by Eugene Weiser ...
    Entire libraries could be written on the Pennsylvania Railroad ranging from its history to the different businesses it owned, far too much to cover here which is a mere brief history of the railroad. The Pennsy was an institution to the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania. For over 100 years, the keystone represented the PRR as much as it did the State of Pennsylvania itself. For ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Subways

    Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways

    by Brian J. Cudahy ...
    The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City's fabled subway.On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains of the newly inaugurated Interborough Rapid Transit System. More than a century later, the subway has ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horseshoe Curve

    by David W. Seidel ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    The Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve is known worldwide as an engineering wonder. This landmark, located just west of Altoona, opened to traffic on February 15, 1854, and it enabled the Pennsylvania railroad line to climb the Allegheny Mountains and the eastern continental divide. The Horseshoe Curve's construction impacted railroad design and development for mountainous terrain everywhere, ... Read more

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  • Reading Trains and Trolleys

    by Philip K. Smith, Historical Society of Berks County ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Rail transportation has been part of daily life in Reading since the 1830s. Reading Trains and Trolleys portrays the good old days of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway (reorganized as the Reading Company in 1923), the Schuykill Valley Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, the Neversink Mountain Railroad, the Reading City Passenger Railway, and the Reading ... Read more

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  • The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

    by James E. Casto ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    In the late 1860s, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) pushed its first tracks westward from Virginia's Tidewater region across the mountains into what was then the new state of West Virginia. Ultimately its tracks stretched across a half-dozen states and even into Canada. Appalachian coal was the C&O's primary cargo, but its fast freights carried shipments of all kinds, and its crack passenger ... Read more

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  • Railroads of Rensselaer

    by Ernie Mann ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Rensselaer was once a classic American railroad town, and like most cities and towns of its type, it was part of an important junction of several destinations. From the 1840s to today, trains have rolled to the four principal compass points from town. Located across the Hudson River from Albany, Rensselaer has seen a rich array of locomotives, structures, and notable trains, all helping to ... Read more

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  • The Southern Railway

    by Sallie Loy, Dick Hillman, C. Pat Cates, Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Southern Railway Historical Assocuiation ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Go inside the transition from steam to diesel, the pinnacle of rail travel and the development of the South through much of the 20th century. The Southern Railway was the pinnacle of rail service in the South for nearly 100 years. Its roots stretch back to 1827, when the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company was founded in Charleston to provide freight transportation and America's first ... Read more

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  • St. Louis Gateway Rail

    The 1970s

    by Lesley Barker ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis�s aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri�s loyalty to the ... Read more

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