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Product Description: Modern Locomotives examines how the demands of commerce spurred General Electric and General Motors' Electro-Motive Division to develop 25 remarkable locomotives capable of ever-greater speeds and tractive effort. Fabulous photographs from Solomon's own archive and those of his colleagues showcase these high-horsepower locmotives as they negotiate mountain grades, lonely stretches of desert, small towns, and major cities across the United States and Canada...read more

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9780785826811 | Book Sales, July 1, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Modern Locomotives examines how the demands of commerce spurred General Electric and General Motors' Electro-Motive Division to develop 25 remarkable locomotives capable of ever-greater speeds and tractive effort.
9780760312582 | Motorbooks Intl, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The greatest steam and diesel locomotives of the 20th century are presented in a landscape format that presents many of the engines in double-page spreads measuring two feet in length. A superbly researched text describes the technical details and capacities of all the locomotives...read more

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9780760309964 | Motorbooks Intl, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The greatest steam and diesel locomotives of the 20th century are presented in a landscape format that presents many of the engines in double-page spreads measuring two feet in length.

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An illustrated history of professional wrestling provides statistical information for more than fifty top figures and outlines some of the sport's most important events, in a fan's reference that includes coverage of such names as Andre the Giant, George 'The Animal' Steele, and the Iron Sheik. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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9780743490337 | World Wrestling Entertainment, February 21, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Provides statistical information for more than fifty top figures, outlines some of the sport's most important events, and includes coverage of such names as Andre the Giant, George 'The Animal' Steele, and the Iron Sheik.

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By Brian Solomon (photographer)

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9781421668598 | Wal edition (Browntrout Pub, June 1, 2010), cover price $13.99

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9780760335895 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, May 19, 2010), cover price $40.00

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Wrestling fanatics can put ther World Wrestling Federation knowledge to the test in this no-holds-barred trivia guide that asks such questions as How many names Terry Bollea wrestled under? and What does the H stand for in Triple H? Original.

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9780743457569 | Gallery Books, November 5, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Offers professional wrestling fans a series of questions about the performers and spectacles presented by World Wrestling Entertainment, formerly known as the World Wrestling Federation.

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Product Description: From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations...read more

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9780760313602 | Motorbooks Intl, October 1, 2003, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This complete and illustrated guide to railroad signaling in the U.

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9780760338810 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, February 15, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free.

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9780760333389 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, December 4, 2009), cover price $40.00

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Product Description: From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work...read more

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9780760333594 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, July 29, 2009), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: From the first, U.

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Product Description: This wonderfully illustrated book celebrates Golden State railroading, offering a colorful look at California’s legendary railroads, the men who built and ran them, and the engineering feats that made them possible, and the legacy those railroads have left in the form of the state’s historic tourist roads and museums, as well as modern railroad operations...read more

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9780760333334 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, June 1, 2009), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This wonderfully illustrated book celebrates Golden State railroading, offering a colorful look at California’s legendary railroads, the men who built and ran them, and the engineering feats that made them possible, and the legacy those railroads have left in the form of the state’s historic tourist roads and museums, as well as modern railroad operations.

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Product Description: From humble beginnings in the 1800s, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew to be one of the most powerful, influential railroads in American history--a railroad that Fortune Magazine called “a nation unto itself.” It owned its own shops, coal mines, hotels, communications system, and power plants, not to mention hundreds of depots (including the famous Penn Station in Manhattan), thousands of passenger cars, tens of thousands of freight cars, and a vast fleet of steam, electric, and diesel locomotives...read more

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9780760329306 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, March 18, 2009), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: From humble beginnings in the 1800s, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew to be one of the most powerful, influential railroads in American history--a railroad that Fortune Magazine called “a nation unto itself.

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9780760303795 | Voyageur Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: A beautifully photographed historical look at Dublin

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9780785824725 | Chartwell Books, July 30, 2008, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A beautifully photographed historical look at Dublin

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Product Description: For well over a century and a half the railroad has rolled on, crisscrossing the continent in the ceaseless activity that keeps the North American economy moving. This never-ending workday unfolds hour by hour in The Railroad Never Sleeps, a remarkable photographic chronicle of North American railroading over twenty-four hours...read more
By Brian Solomon (editor)

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9780760331194 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, May 15, 2008), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: For well over a century and a half the railroad has rolled on, crisscrossing the continent in the ceaseless activity that keeps the North American economy moving.

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Product Description: Few states have a railroad heritage as rich as Pennsylvanias. This illustrated book offers a colorful look at the Keystone States historic railroads, the men who built and ran them, and the engineering feats that made them possible...read more
By Brian Solomon (foreword by)

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9780760332450 | 1 edition (Voyageur Pr, May 15, 2008), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Few states have a railroad heritage as rich as Pennsylvanias.

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A colorful look at the great American railroad - the Southern Pacific. The Southern Pacific Railroad is one of the most important railroads in the US. In its heyday, Southern Pacific operating revenues were overshadowed only by the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad. Southern Pacific is famous for participating in the building of the transcontinental railroad, its fleet of Daylight streamlined passenger trains, and its 200 "Cab-Forward" steam locomotives. Information-packed!

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9780760329313 | 1 reprint edition (Voyageur Pr, November 15, 2007), cover price $36.95

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9780760306147 | Voyageur Pr, November 20, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A colorful look at the great American railroad - the Southern Pacific.

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9780760325285 | Voyageur Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $36.95

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Product Description: For decades the New York Central reigned as one of Americas most important railroads. Beginning with the 1853 consolidation of a group of fledgling railways that formed a route from Buffalo to Albany, the New York Central grew into a powerhouse transportation company with more than 10,000 route miles...read more

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9780760329283 | Reprint edition (Voyageur Pr, August 15, 2007), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: For decades the New York Central reigned as one of Americas most important railroads.

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9780760306130 | Motorbooks Intl, July 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In the twentieth century, the New York Central Railroad was one of the most powerful lines in the United States.

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Product Description: Few American transportation images are as evocative as those of diesel and steam locomotives hauling goods and passengers across the continent’s varied landscapes and cityscapes. Our bestselling calendar of American railroads features 24 all-color photos, including modern photographs of operational railways and archival, look-like-they-were-shot-yesterday images fondly recalling the railroad industry’s fallen flags...read more

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9780760330876 | Wal edition (Voyageur Pr, August 15, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Few American transportation images are as evocative as those of diesel and steam locomotives hauling goods and passengers across the continent’s varied landscapes and cityscapes.

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9780760323960 | Voyageur Pr, December 15, 2006, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: In 1935, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-better known as the Milwaukee Road-introduced a new passenger service, one of the nation's first regularly scheduled streamlined passenger trains. Traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee and the Twin Cities-the train traveled routes steeped in native lore, and thus was called the Hiawatha...read more

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9780760323953 | Voyageur Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In 1935, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

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Product Description: The notion of working on a railroad has always carried its share of romance, taking in everything from the dreams of small boys to legends like John Henry and Casey Jones. The reality is far more complicated and often, as this book amply demonstrates, more interesting...read more

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9780760322208 | Voyageur Pr, August 15, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The notion of working on a railroad has always carried its share of romance, taking in everything from the dreams of small boys to legends like John Henry and Casey Jones.

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Product Description: Diesel, the most significant development in railway technology during the 20th century, was refined and perfected resulting in locomotives that were more powerful, faster, more reliable, and more versatile than the earliest machines on the market...read more

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9781580070966 | Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers, July 15, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Diesel, the most significant development in railway technology during the 20th century, was refined and perfected resulting in locomotives that were more powerful, faster, more reliable, and more versatile than the earliest machines on the market.

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Product Description: In the 1940s and 1950s, American railroads made the historic transition from steam to diesel-electric power. At a time when railroads still relied on steam power for most service and diesels remained a novelty, Electro-Motive took the nation by storm with its distinctive-looking four-motor F-unit locomotives that echoed across America...read more

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9781580070836 | Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers, October 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the 1940s and 1950s, American railroads made the historic transition from steam to diesel-electric power.

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