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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
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Les Standiford
LAST TRAIN TO PARADISE recounts the perilous undertaking begun in 1904, when billionaire Henry Flagler imagined a railroad connecting Florida and Key West. The railroad was built--and then, 22 years after its completion, the train tracks were swept away by a hurricane. Here Strandiford reveals the untold story of the many who toiled to complete ...
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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
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David Haward Bain
Interweaving 14 years worth of research with an action-packed narrative, this transportation history chronicles the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the political and cultural struggles surrounding the expansion of the American West. A 2000 New York Times Notable Book.
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
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Gary Krist
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped - but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and ...
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
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Dr. Jill Jonnes
In this gripping narrative, Jonnes tells the fascinating story of the struggle to connect New York City to the rest of the nation and the high-stakes drama that pitted the money and will of the nation's mightiest railroad against the machinations of labor agitators.
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Steam, Steel & Stars: America's Last Steam Railroad
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O Winston Link (Photographer)
The late years of steam railroading in America - 1955 to 1960 - are documented in this book. Black-and-white photographs, made at night, capture the drama and energy of the great Norfolk & Western trains in action. Here too is the trackside rural American life in the 1950s.
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The American Railroad Passenger Car
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Professor John H White
'The American Railroad Passenger Car' recaptures the lost, but not-too-distant past when 98 percent of all intercity travel in the United States was by rail. It documents in extraordinary detail the ingenuity and splendor of the classic trains as well as the rattle and clatter, the dust and cinders of early rail travel. An unparalleled record of ...
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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
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Professor Clifton Hood
When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue - the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the Independent Subway line (IND) in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles - long enough to reach from New ...
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The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch
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The Last Steam Railroad in America
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Thomas H Garver, O Winston Link (Photographer), Winston O Link (Photographer)
From 1955 to 1959, O. Winston Link travelled up and down the Norfolk and Western railroad, taking pictures of the trains, the towns and the people who lived and worked there. This book contains day and night photographs, with a text on the railroad's activities, Link's achievement and his life.
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Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
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Professor John R Stilgoe
An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.
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More Classic American Railroads
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Mike Schafer
Follow-up to the topselling Classic American Railroads explores the fascinating histories of the Northern Pacific, Wabash, Nickel Plate, New Haven, Erie, and 12 other railways. Amazingly preserved period photography.
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China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet
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Abrahm Lustgarten
In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final manoeuvre in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical frontier, which promised ...
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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
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Brian Solomon
Here is the detailed and fascinating history of how two legendary railroads -- the Santa Fe and the Burlington Northern (which itself was comprised four major railroads) -- merged in 1995 to create what remains one of America's rail icons, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). A blockbuster railroad merits a history book of the same scale, and ...
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The wreck of the Penn Central
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Joseph R Daughen, Peter Binzen
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Travel by Pullman: A Century of Service
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Joe Welsh, Bill Howes
At the height of its popularity in the 1910s and 1920s, Pullman carried more than 35 million passengers annually on a fleet of 9,000-plus sleeping and parlor cars from Puget Sound to Key West and Bangor to San Diego. Every evening for much of the twentieth century, 50,000 or more travelers snuggled under crisp Pullman linens, falling asleep in one ...
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Narrow gauge in the Rockies
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Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles M. Clegg
Take a nostalgic 100 year Journey through the Rocky Mountains aboard the narrow gauge railways that snaked through them.
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Trains
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When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment
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Joseph P Schwieterman
This volume tells of closing rail lines from historic junctions, ageing industrial centres, agricultural villages, and familiar tourist destinations throughout the eastern half of the United States. Joseph Schwieterman takes a look at events that contributed to the demise of railroads in 64 towns and cities distinguished by their notable railroad ...
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The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier
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V V Masterson, Don L Hofsommer (Designer)
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Classic American Railroads
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Mike Schafer
Classic American Railroads is a beautiful tribute to the golden age of railroading in America. Focusing on the years between WWII and the decline of rail travel in the 1970s, 16 of the most-remembered railroads and their finest equipment are featured in 200 original color and black and white photos.
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Railroads of the Yosemite Valley
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Hank Johnston
This is a reprint of a classic work that tells the intriguing story of the four short line railroads that operated in the Merced River canyon to serve Yosemite National Park. Originally published in 1963, the volume offers a wealth of photographic material, including over 200 black and white images of trains, tracks, stations, and related ...
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Working on the Railroad
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Brian Solomon
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. This richly illustrated volume takes us behind the scenes to show what goes ...
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Nevada County Narrow Gauge
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Gerald M Best
The text recounts the story of this short line which served California's northern mines. There are at least 10 pictures per mile of track, including the mines, the colourful mining towns, the personnel of the railroad and a complete photographic roster of all its locomotives, freight and passenger cars.
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Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916
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Gabriel Kolko
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The Age of Steam: A Classic Album of American Railroading
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Lucius Beebe, Charles Clegg
The monumental classic capturing the spirit of the Indian lifestyle has returned in its original epic splendor. More than 80 portraits preserve the beauty and pathos of Native Americans.
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