Railroads

Now In Paperback, The #1 New York Times Bestselling Chronicle Of The Rise And Fall Of A Legendary American Dynasty, From Cnn Anchor And Journalist Anderson ...

three Photographers, Who Have Visited China 35 Times Over A Ten-year Period, Create What Will Likely Be The World’s Final Photographic Essay Of The Steam En...

This story of UP's Salt Lake Route contains information never before published in a railroad history. Illustrated with color photographs taken between 1948 ...

The Pioneer Years, 1830-1855 -- The Railroads Come Of Age, 1855-1875 -- The Explosive Years, 1875-1897 -- The Golden Years, 1897-1920 -- The Roaring Twentie...

From the late 1940s onward, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday transportation moments into magical...

This generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the t...

This comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification has been out of print for many years. Now, Indiana University Press is proud to annou...

1. Ambiguous Legacy Of The Era Of Reform: 1893-1920 -- Last Spike At Stevens Pass, 1893 -- Northern Securities Case -- Last Additions To The North American ...

Introduction : Treading On Enchanted Ground -- Baltimore Looks West -- The Vast Machinery -- Network -- Default -- Riding The Rails -- The Soulless Corporat...

This Book Offers A New Cultural History Of The Railway Age In Britain. As The Newly Constructed Railways Transformed The Landscape And The Economics Of Nine...

More than a century before airlines placed it at the center of their systems, Chicago was already the nation's transportation hub –from Union Station, pas...

One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen...

Rising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest railroad filed for bankruptcy, American railroads are once again a major pa...

The Account Of An Unprecedented Feat Of Engineering, Vision, And Courage. It Is The Story Of The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad-the Investors W...

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the e...

For more than 100 years, steam locomotives were the most technologically advanced form of power and transport dominating the railways, and were often descri...

Author Charles Bohi has spent countless summers combing Canada's west for information and photographing thousands of stations and structures. The result ...

In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the...

A revelatory, entertaining account of the world’s most indispensable mode of transportationTom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new...

Britain was the pioneering force behind the birth of the steam locomotive. This authoritative visual reference spans over 150 years of railway history, feat...

Genesis. First Principles -- Patriotism And Profit -- The Acts Of The Founders -- Building With Other People's Money -- Golden Spike -- A Railroad Life: H.k...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

This lavish photographic history of the most beautiful and historic railway stations in London tells a story of power, progress and innovation, from the beg...