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U. S. Railroads: Issues, Regulations and Safety

By Thomas L. Dupont (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781617615023 | Nova Biomedical, January 1, 2011, cover price $165.00

Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service

By James Howard Kunstler (foreword by) and James Mccommons

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Paperback:

9781603580649 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, November 17, 2009, cover price $19.95

Highways of Progress

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By James Jerome Hill

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9781103716548 | Bibliolife, March 30, 2009, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9780405050930 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1910, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.

Paperback:

9781110813124 | Lightning Source Inc, May 15, 2009, cover price $31.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781103716531 | Bibliolife, March 30, 2009, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9780894990250 | Fredonia Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From the time he was 18 in St.

Santa Fe Railway

By Steve Glischinski

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Hardcover:

9780760333358 | Voyageur Pr, December 16, 2008, cover price $37.00

Paperback:

9780760303801 | Voyageur Pr, November 13, 1997, cover price $24.95

Milwaukee Road Remembered

Product Description: An eminent railway historian furnishes a detailed history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad, its groundbreaking service from Indiana to the Puget Sound, its pioneering use of electricity to move heavy trains over a long distance, and other technological advances...read more

By Jim Scribbins

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Hardcover:

9780890240755 | Kalmbach Pub Co, June 1, 1990, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by Scribbins, Jim

Paperback:

9780816656257 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 26, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An eminent railway historian furnishes a detailed history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

Southern Pacific Railroad

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!

By Brian Solomon

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Hardcover:

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

Paperback:

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

Classic American Railroads

Product Description: Railroads have been part of the American way of life since 1828 when Americas first common-carrier railroad, the Baltimore Ohio, laid its first rail. Since then, hundreds and hundreds of railroad companies have been born. The Classic American Railroads gift set chronicles 44 of America and Canadas most loved railroads from the golden age...read more

By Mike Schafer

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9780760323632 | Slp edition (Motorbooks Intl, April 15, 2006), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Railroads have been part of the American way of life since 1828 when Americas first common-carrier railroad, the Baltimore Ohio, laid its first rail.

9780760316498 | Motorbooks Intl, September 1, 2003, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This book picks up where the previous two Classic American titles left off, celebrating 12 more of the greatest American railways to ever put steel to track: the Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk & Western, Soo Line, Lackawanna, Monon, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, Frisco, Maine Central, Canadian National, Clinchfield, Reading, and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle.

9780760302392 | Voyageur Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $36.95

The Southern Railway: Further Recollections

Product Description: Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway. Included in these pages are stories of bravery in war andingenuity in peace...read more

By C. Pat Cates, Pat C. Cates, Richard L. Hillman and Sallie Loy

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9780738518312 | Arcadia Pub, September 14, 2005, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway.

Way of the Zephyrs: The Postwar Years

Product Description: In this companion volume to his Burlington Route - The Early Zephyrs, author Geoffrey H. Doughty traces the postwar Zephyr fleet from the birth of the modern dome car in 1945 through to the Burlington Northern merger of 1970. Along the way, readers are introduced to such streamlined passenger train icons as the 1949 California Zephyr and the 1956 Denver Zephyr, as well as lesser lights from the CB&Q's timetables...read more

By Geoffrey H. Doughty

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9780976620112 | Tlc Pub Inc, July 25, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this companion volume to his Burlington Route - The Early Zephyrs, author Geoffrey H.

The Southern Railway

By C. Pat Cates, Pat C. Cates, Richard L. Hillman and Sallie Loy

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9780738516417 | Arcadia Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $21.99

Chasing Trains: The Lifetime Story of the Founder of the Colorado Railroad Museum

Product Description: This 432-page 8½ x 11" hardbound tells of the numerous lifetime railroad adventures of Robert W. Richardson, noted author, photographer and historian. Bob, a railfan’s railfan, originally released the book in 1995 under the Sundance Publications label, and it sold out...read more

By Robert W. Richardson

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9780911581560 | Heimburger House Pub Co, January 1, 2004, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: This 432-page 8½ x 11" hardbound tells of the numerous lifetime railroad adventures of Robert W.

Images of Western Railroading

Product Description: From dizzying mountain passes to verdant pine valleys and arid desert canyons, the regions spanning the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast have always presented the railroad industry with special difficulties, spurring the development of new equipment to surmount those challenges...read more

By Steve Schmollinger

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9780760315743 | Motorbooks Intl, October 1, 2003, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: From dizzying mountain passes to verdant pine valleys and arid desert canyons, the regions spanning the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast have always presented the railroad industry with special difficulties, spurring the development of new equipment to surmount those challenges.

Burlington Route: The Early Zephyrs

Product Description: The Burlington Route-The Early Zephyrs combines the fascinating sotry of these trains and their creators with a marvelous collection of photographs, diagrams, and promotional material. Trains like the Twin Zephyrs, The mark Twain Zephyr, and the overnight Denver Zephyr changed how Americans - and American railroads - looked a the passenger train, and made it possible for one railroad to meet the challenges of the Great Depression...read more

By David Boddington

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9781883089665 | Motorbooks Intl, July 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Burlington Route-The Early Zephyrs combines the fascinating sotry of these trains and their creators with a marvelous collection of photographs, diagrams, and promotional material.

Royal Blue Line: The Classic B & O Train Between Washington and New York

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By Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. and Courtney B. Wilson (foreword by)

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9780801870613 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 2, 2002), cover price $28.00

Monon: The Hoosier Line

Product Description: After almost a quarter of a century, Monon: The Hoosier Line is back in print in a revised second edition featuring an updated Epilogue, additional photographs, and a new Afterword by Frank Van Bree, President of the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society, Inc...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary W. Dolzall

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9780253340832 | 2 rev sub edition (Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2002), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: After almost a quarter of a century, Monon: The Hoosier Line is back in print in a revised second edition featuring an updated Epilogue, additional photographs, and a new Afterword by Frank Van Bree, President of the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society, Inc.

9780916374785 | Interurban Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: After almost a quarter of a century, Monon: The Hoosier Line is back in print in a revised second edition featuring an updated Epilogue, additional photographs, and a new Afterword by Frank Van Bree, President of the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society, Inc.

Amtrak: Background and Bibliography

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By Samuel P. Goodwin (editor)

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9781590332108 | Nova Science Pub Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $65.00

Classic Railroads You Can Model

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9780890246146 | Kalmbach Pub Co, December 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by

Southern Railway Remembered

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By James Leslie Hepler

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9781883089634 | Tlc Pub Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: New

More Classic American Railroads

Product Description: This follow-up to the MBI bestseller Classic American Railroads is a beautiful tribute to 15 additional railroads not included in the first volume. Focusing on the golden age of railroading between World War II and the early 1970s, this all-new book features the histories, locomotives, rolling stock, and memorabilia of railroads like the Delaware & Hudson; Erie Lackawanna; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio; St...read more

By Mike Schafer

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Hardcover:

9780760307588 | Voyageur Pr, November 2, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This follow-up to the MBI bestseller Classic American Railroads is a beautiful tribute to 15 additional railroads not included in the first volume.

Desert Railroading

Product Description: This deluxe, coffee table book is filled with a large variety of spectacular modern-day images of railroading in the desert, including a range of states and railroads, both large and small. With detailed historical commentary this book is a colourful tribute to past, present and future railroads that serve this region...read more

By Steve Schmollinger

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Hardcover:

9780911581508 | Heimburger House Pub Co, February 1, 2000, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: This deluxe, coffee table book is filled with a large variety of spectacular modern-day images of railroading in the desert, including a range of states and railroads, both large and small.

The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: 160 Lines Abandoned or Merged Since 1930

By George H. Drury (editor)

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Paperback:

9780890243565 | 2nd edition (Kalmbach Pub Co, November 1, 1999), cover price $28.95

High Speed Rail in the U.S.: Super Trains for the Millennium

Product Description: An original approach for dealing with High Speed Rail (HSR) transportation development in the United States, this book serves as a blueprint for such development by providing an in-depth evaluation of the different systems and their inherent linkage to other transportation modes, their potential costs, financing options, system benefits, the current level of use and success of HSR and Maglev elsewhere in the world, the current state of thinking on these systems in the US and their prospects to further efficient and environmentally benign economic growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Thomas Lynch (editor)

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9789056996055 | CRC Pr I Llc, December 1, 1998, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: An original approach for dealing with High Speed Rail (HSR) transportation development in the United States, this book serves as a blueprint for such development by providing an in-depth evaluation of the different systems and their inherent linkage to other transportation modes, their potential costs, financing options, system benefits, the current level of use and success of HSR and Maglev elsewhere in the world, the current state of thinking on these systems in the US and their prospects to further efficient and environmentally benign economic growth.

Reading Company in Color

Product Description: Handsomely done full color pictorial of the Reading Railroad showcasing the diesel and electric eras. This book takes the reader for a ride along the Reading, visiting all the major stations and branches, the Reading Terminal, the Wilmington & Northern, and the Reading & Columbia...read more

By Jeremy F. Plant

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9781878887955 | Morning Sun Books, July 1, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Handsomely done full color pictorial of the Reading Railroad showcasing the diesel and electric eras.

The Historical Guide to North American Railroads

By George H. Drury (compiler)

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Paperback:

9780890243183 | 2nd edition (Kalmbach Pub Co, December 1, 1997), cover price $28.95

9780890240724, titled "Historical Guide to North American Railroads" | Kalmbach Pub Co, June 1, 1985, cover price $24.95

Derailed: What Went Wrong and What to Do About America's Passenger Trains

One of Amtrak's original creators thirty years ago calls Amtrack a 'failed experiment,' and makes suggestions based on his own experience, as well as on successful rail lines in other countries, on how to improve America's passenger train system. (view table of contents)

By Joseph Vranich

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9780312171827 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Discusses the troubled history of Amtrak, its loss of market share, and inability to provide better and faster service, and describes ways to make a successful rail system in the United States

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