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The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive...

Britain's leading railway historian provides a critical examination of the Blair governments' involvement in the rail industry from 1997 as they attempted to deal with the UK's fragmented, privatized railways. The book focuses particularly on the work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913166342Author Michael ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

The Poster to Poster series is a nine-volume definitive collection of British railway posters which showcases many of the railway posters from the National Railway Museum at York and other museums and galleries. Each volume is a mixture of travel...

The Great Western Railway's Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred years thousands of apprentices and 'trainees' passed through its doors to learn the trades of the...

Narrow Gauge in the Tropics is the first comprehensive history of railways and tramways in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) from breaking ground in 1864 to the invasion of the Japanese during World War II.During the mid-19th century under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642494877Author V M Govind KrishnanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Notion Press, IncPublisher Notion Press, IncWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

At the forefront of innovation and development in the rail world, the Southern Railway was the only main-line railway to embrace electrification wholeheartedly, creating what was at the time the world's largest electric suburban network. It was also the...

A. Aubrey Bodine's archive of train photographs chronicling mid-twentieth-century rail transportation. A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621067429Author Bill DanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

This concise look at the locomotive company Robert Stephenson & Co from 1823 to 1923 by J. G. Warren provides a unique history of the locomotive industry as it came to be built. He includes details such as letters, diagrams, photos, pictures and tables...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937684211Author The Reading CompanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Periscope Film LLCPublisher Periscope Film LLCWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627009263Author Brian SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Kalmbach MediaPublisher Kalmbach MediaWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 270mm * 208mm *...

This captivating book takes readers on an illustrated tour of the black railroad experience from slavery to Amtrak. With almost 200 images-many never before published-Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., examines the significant contributions of African Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179910Author Robert D. TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Brian Reed's account is widely acknowledged as the definitive work on the once mighty Crewe Works, with an emphasis on the pre-1947 period it also includes information on the post-nationalisation period. It provides a wealth of authoritative detail on...

There have been, and will be, other books on the New York City subway system, but none have had access to the wonderful photographic prints from the collections of the New York Transit Museum that are presented in this volume. Made from 8 x 10-inch glass...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel considered the Great Western Railway the 'finest work in England' and he contributed many groundbreaking features, none so unorthodox as the decision not to adopt the 'standard' track gauge of 4ft 81/2in and instead introduce the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625451170Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)...

The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary diesel-electric locomotive, the FT.As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the precipice of railroad transformation. In an obscure factory in La Grange, Illinois, a group of gifted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913166038Author Michael ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627008808Author Brian SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Kalmbach MediaPublisher Kalmbach MediaWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 208mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738560014Author Thad Hillis CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

The Union had won the Civil War and abolished slavery. However, Lincoln, an early champion of railroads, would not live to see the next great achievment. The governmentpitted the Union Pacific against the Central Pacific in a race that encouraged speed...

The railways of the USA have a great following, both in the United States where there are large numbers of rail fans and increasingly in Britain/Europe, where there are enthusiasts who visit and model North American railroads. The number and variety of...

The first street railway opened in New Orleans in 1835. Over the years various methods of powering the streetcars including horses, stream locomotives, overhead cable system, and fireless locomotives were tried. In 1893, electric streetcar operation...

The London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) claimed to be the largest private enterprise concern in the British Empire. It was Britain's largest steam railway and the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as...

"Informative and very satisfying to read." --Library Journal"For those of you who cannot get enough of railroad history, this book will brighten your day." --LivesteamCompletely revised and updated edition of this best-sellerRegional histories of the...

In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat-they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993487095Author Michael ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon PublishingWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm)...

Ken Hoole was a noted authority on the railways of the north east of England. This, his wide-ranging account of the stations that served the passengers of the north-east's railway, is complemented by illustrations and photographs of both the bustling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627008617Author Art PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Kalmbach MediaPublisher Kalmbach MediaWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 278mm * 212mm *...

The final volume of Albert J. Churella's landmark series, The Pennsylvania Railroad, concludes the story of the iconic transportation company, covering its long decline from the 1930s to its merger with the New York Central Railroad in 1968.Despite some...

Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience explores the role of local frontline workers that kept the country's vast...

Despite being one of the best-known and admired rail companies in the country, by 1947 the GWR was at the lowest ebb of its entire history. Worn out by war, there had been no maintenance for six years and the government couldn't supply the steel it...

To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984986668Author Barton JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Techscribes, Inc.Publisher Techscribes, Inc.Weight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935327998Author Francis H. DoaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CKE PublicationsPublisher CKE PublicationsWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one...