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  • The Peases & the S&D Railway

    The S & D Railway was officially opened September 1825, the rest of the North of England if not the whole Country watched with interest. The Peases played a major role in Es-tablishing this exciting rail venture and infact it was the first passenger travelling railway in the world. George Stephenson was chief engineer and I have charted this brilliant time in history having a look at all of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Intercity Electric Railway Industry in Canada

    by John Due ...
    Series series Heritage
    The intercity electric railway industry in Canada, which began in 1887, ended in 1959. It was never a major industry but its role in the transition of Canadian land transportation from almost sole reliance on the steam railroad to dominance of the motor vehicle should not be overlooked. Professor Due's study, divided into two parts, presents first a general review of the development, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Philosophy of railroads and other essays

    Railroad promotion and manipulation in the 19th century

    by T.C. Keefer ...
    Series series Heritage
    T.C. Keefer's Philosophy of Railroads is one of the greatest hymns of praise to the age of iron and steel ever written in North America. Better than any other document it shows why railroads were seen as the arteries of the Canadian nation during the nineteenth century, This volume brings four of Keefer's works together with a brilliant introduction by H.V. Nelles. It includes Philosophy of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Bunkhouse Man

    Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps

    Series series Heritage
    Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology, it is still the best description of what it was like to be a working man in Canada before the First ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The 1852 Guide to the Great Western Railway

    by George Measom ...
    When George Measom wrote his bestselling Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway in 1852, Brunel’s railway line between London and Bristol had been fully opened just eleven years. The Great Exhibition of the previous year had attracted six million visitors, many of whom had travelled to it by rail. This was the true Age of the Train. His guide is alive with an atmosphere of bustle and steam ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Railroads Triumphant

    The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force

    by Albro Martin ...
    In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies

    Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Upper Merrimack Valley to Winnipesaukee By Rail

    Series series Images of America
    Railroads have played an integral part in shaping the identity of America, from carrying loads for industrial pursuits to connecting urban dwellers to recreational escapes in the countryside. In this volume, you will travel on the rail line that links New Hampshire's upper Merrimack Valley to the Lake Winnipesaukee region. From your window seat, you will watch beautiful, late-nineteenth and early ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

    From Cumberland to Uniontown

    Series series Images of America
    During the turn of the century, the railroad was an extremely important transportation and shipping resource to thousands of people and businesses in Pennsylvania.Along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: From Cumberland to Uniontown dedicates its pages to this pivotal mass transportation provider. This book includes images from every B&O bridge and station from Cumberland, Maryland, to Uniontown, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Railways and Waterways

    Through The White Mountains

    Series series Images of America
    The White Mountains and the area�s many lakes, rivers, and waterfalls have long been an attraction for thousands of visitors to this most scenic mountain area in all of New England. In Railways and Waterways of the White Mountains, you will explore the wonders of the many historic bodies of water that have drawn visitors and settlers to the North Country for hundreds of years, offering a beautiful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chattahoochee Valley Railway

    by Tom Gallo ...
    Series series Images of America
    Track the history of Chattahoochee Valley Railway through five generations of service using vintage images.Weaving across state lines from Standing Rock, Alabama, through West Point, Georgia, and back to Bleecker, Alabama, the Chattahoochee Valley Railway served many communities along its line. Its last run was in 1992, but now the days of the short line railroad are revisited in Chattahoochee ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Railroads of Southwest Florida

    Series series Images of America
    When the first �Iron Horse� arrived in Southwest Florida�at Charlotte Harbor in 1886�nearly 150,000 miles of railroads already existed in America, the transcontinental route was open, and Pullman sleeping cars were in wide use. But despite a late start, railroads forever transformed this beautiful region of the Sunshine State and connected its people to the outside world. In Railroads of Southwest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Boston Rode the EL

    Series series Images of America
    The Boston Elevated Railway broke ground in 1899 for a new transit service that opened in 1901, providing a seven-mile elevated railway that connected Dudley Street Station in Roxbury and Sullivan Square Station in Charlestown, two huge multilevel terminals. When the EL, as it was popularly known, opened for service, it provided an unencumbered route high above the surging traffic of Boston, until ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nothing Like It In the World

    The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

    In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Empire Express

    Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

    After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. From self--made ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Maritime Biloxi

    by Val Husley ...
    Series series Images of America
    Site of the landing of Pierre LeMoyne Sieur d'Iberville in February 1699 and the birthplace of the French colony la Louisiane, Biloxi has been nurtured by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for more than three hundred years. Located almost due north of the mouth of the Mississippi, on a coast laced with small rivers, bays, and bayous, the historic peninsula city owes much of its fortune and growth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boston & Maine in the 19th Century

    Series series Images of Rail
    All the romance of early railroading in northern New England pervades Boston & Maine in the 19th Century. This fascinating journey begins in the 1830s with an 8-mile line that just kept growing. By the end of the century, Boston & Maine was traveling over 2,324 miles of track. This first pictorial history of the Boston & Maine explores the heyday of an enterprising railroad. Using spectacular ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lake Winnipesaukee

    by Bruce Heald ...
    Series series Making of America
    A world unto itself, Lake Winnipesaukee and its environs have attracted and sustained a variety of cultures over the past centuries, from early American Indian tribes, to New World settlers, to today's seasonal tourists. Whether Indian hunter, aspiring pioneer, or modern-day angler, each, in turn, fell for the region's wild allure: its sheer natural beauty, fertile soils, and waters teeming with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boston & Maine in the 20th Century

    Series series Images of Rail
    As the twentieth century dawned, the Boston & Maine Railroad Company controlled virtually all of the rail lines in New Hampshire, as well as much of the service in Maine and Massachusetts. Ultimately, the company operated more than 2,000 stations in northern New England. The train was the most important mode of travel, and the stations were the center of the community. Boston & Maine in the 20th ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detroit's Michigan Central Station

    Series series Images of America
    In 1913, the Michigan Central Station opened its majestic entrances to the people of Detroit.Designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the firms also noted as the architects of the Grand Central Station in New York City, the depot was a marvel of grandeur and comfort for the traveler lucky enough to utilize its facilities. Soldiers went to war, families both separated and rejoined, and folks ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City

    Series series Images of Rail
    With over two hundred historical photographs, Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City explores the cultural and commercial effects of railway travel in two important New Jersey cities. Because of their unique location directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, Hoboken and Jersey City have long been centers of transportation activity. When the railway industry was booming in the early twentieth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Engine's Moan

    American Steam Whistles

    Here, Ed Fagen, one of the nations foremost authorities on steam whistles, has provided us with a broadly researched, eloquently written and marvelously witty book, the first and only one on the subject. It includes comprehensive, illustrated chapters on: the history of the steam whistle, the voice of the Industrial Revolution, and how it developed; the various uses of steam whistles on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Maritime Marion Massachusetts

    Series series Making of America
    Marion's relationship with the ocean has been the defining element in the small town's development since its settlement as Sippican in America's colonial era. Since 1678, generation after generation of Marion families have relied upon the opportunities a port and sea provide in both life and industry. The waters of Buzzards Bay run deep in this coastal community, and its influence leaves an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boston's Red Line

    Bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree

    by Frank Cheney ...
    Series series Images of America
    When the Boston Elevated Railway Company broke ground for the Cambridge Subway in May 1909, its intention was to provide the cities of Boston and Cambridge with the finest and most efficient rapid-transit system of the time. Other cities, such as New York and Philadelphia, paid close attention, adopting many of the Cambridge Subway's revolutionary design features. The subway became known as the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus