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Cover of Empire Express

Empire Express

Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

by David Haward Bain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

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...
Cover of Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railroad
by Stephen E. Drew
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

The Virginia & Truckee is the most famous short line railroad in American history. Brainchild of William Sharon and the Bank of California, the V&T hauled the silver and gold ore, the cordwood, and the mining timbers that made the 1870s �Big Bonanza� a reality. From the state capital at Carson City,...
Cover of The Great American Railroad War

The Great American Railroad War

How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took On the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad

by Dennis Drabelle
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed...
Cover of San Francisco's Market Street Railway
by Walt Vielbaum, Philip Hoffman, Grant Ute
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005

The Market Street Railway Company thrived in an age when rails ruled San Francisco. Spanning the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the boom times of World War II, it had a long and legendary lifetime that is deeply ingrained in the city�s early identity. Gradually, however, it became challenged...
Cover of San Diego and Arizona Railway

San Diego and Arizona Railway

The Impossible Railroad

by Ph.D., Reena Deutsch
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011

Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) �The Impossible Railroad� because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier and driving force behind building this binational 148-mile rail connection to the east from San Diego, California, was businessman John D....
Cover of Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles
by Charles P. Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed...
Cover of Niles Canyon Railways
by Henry Luna, Pacific Locomotive Association
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005

All aboard for this photographic journey through the unique railroad history of Niles Canyon, near the city of Fremont. The melodic wail of the steam whistle first echoed off these canyon walls in 1866 when the Western Pacific Railroad laid track into Niles as part of a planned route from San Jose to...
Cover of Sacramento Southern Railroad
by Kevin Hecteman
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009

The Sacramento Southern Railroad was born into a famous railroad family and a busy railroad town in July 1903. The mighty Southern Pacific, which controlled the new line from the outset, built south from Sacramento along the eastern bank of the Sacramento River into the delta�s rich farmland area....
Cover of San Diego Trolleys
by Douglas W. Mengers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017

Starting with the first horse-drawn trolleys introduced by the San Diego Streetcar Company in 1886, San Diego’s history included the growth and decline of several trolley systems. After electricity arrived, San Diego was the site of early experimentation for electric trolleys on the West Coast and...
Cover of I Tried to Run a Railway
by Gerard Fiennes
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015

'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian. 'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail. 'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express. This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern...
Cover of East Garston: Stations of the Great Western Railway GWR
by Charles Darvelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012

An enjoyable history of one of the long vanished branch line stations on the Great Western Railway. East Garston is no more. The site remains, but there is little to show where this once bustling village railway station and its level crossing once stood. East Garston handled a wide variety...
Cover of Women and the Great Western Railway
by Rosa Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering her home'. Yet women were the cheapest form...
Cover of The Railway Navvies
by Terry Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved...
Cover of Whistle Posts West

Whistle Posts West

Railway Tales from British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon

by Mary Trainer, Brian Antonson, Rick Antonson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia. They are embedded in the history of Canada as a whole and western...
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