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Railways and the Victorian Imagination     By : Michael J. Freeman In this illustrated history, Freeman (Oxford Univ.) traces the cultural and social effect that railways had on 19th-century British society. By the 1860s, railways were physically, economically, and culturally pervasive--railroad tracks crisscrossed the country, and railway construction organized and harnessed vast sums of capital and tens of thousands of laborers. Profusely illustrated with photos, maps, and paintings, this book is a visual treat. The text stands on its own as a well-documented work of scholarship. Recommended for academic libraries collecting railroad or British history. Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Sales Rank: 231,286 Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $60.00    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 7-Jun-2003    Hits : 377    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  America's Fighting Railroads: A World War II Pictorial History     By : Don Deneui Fine photos and text on the trains that carried the men & material to win WWII. This softbound book tells how railroads shipped raw materials during WWII by the millions of tons and transported troops by the hundreds of thousands. A total of 200 photos capture a wide variety of steam and early diesel locomotives in action including trains loaded with tanks, guns and troops and depots filled with soldiers on their way to battle. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc. Sales Rank: 269,025 Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $12.95    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 7-Jun-2003    Hits : 59    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  American Narrow Gauge Railroads     By : George W. Hilton This is the first comprehensive, extensively illustrated account of the growth and decline of American narrow gauge railroading, a singular and still not fully understood episode in the history of American transportation. Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr (T) Sales Rank: 273,683 Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $44.95    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 7-Jun-2003    Hits : 53    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  American Railroads (The Chicago History of American Civilization)     By : John F. Stover Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth in recent years as profitable freight carriers. fascinating account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States, John F. Stover's American Railroads traces their history from the first lines that helped eastern seaports capture western markets to today's newly revitalized industry.... Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Sales Rank: 163,315 Avg. Customer Rating: 4 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $17.00    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 13-Apr-2004    Hits : 26    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  Americans on the Move: A History of Waterways, Railways, and Highways With Illustrations from the Library of Congress     By : Russell Bourne This volume explores the importance of mobility to the American way of life. In Americans on the Move, Russell Bourne traces the history of transportation in America from the colonial years before the American Revolution to the present. This book, which includes rare photographs and maps from the Library of Congress (many of which have never been seen before by the public) explores the inventions, the enthusiasms, and the myths that have kept Americans on the move. Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Sales Rank: 605,383 Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $39.95    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 7-Jun-2003    Hits : 38    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  An American Journey: Images of Railroading During the Depression     By : Mark S. Vandercook Between the years 1935 and 1941, the Farm Security Administration employed some of the most highly regarded American photographers, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, to document a country whose people and institutions were in upheaval. This remarkable book makes use of the very best black-and-white railroad photographs from this period, taken directly from the Library of Congress. Diverse images show everything from main line and branch railroading to electric operations. Intimate, humanistic photographs also portray the people who ran the trains and the people affected by them, hobos and children alike. Each photograph has been restored to perfection and appears with the photographer's original caption. Publisher: Hot Box Press Sales Rank: 441,073 Avg. Customer Rating: 2 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $35.95    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 7-Jun-2003    Hits : 41    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War     By : Festus P. Summers The Baltimore and the Ohio in the Civil War by Festus P. Summers explains the B&O era of Civil War time. 433 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.30 x 8.84 x 5.84. Publisher: Stan Clark Military Books Sales Rank: 470,887 Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $30.00    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 7-Jun-2003    Hits : 37    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  Bridging the Hudson: The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge & Its Connecting Rail Lines     By : Carleton Mabee The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge, the longest bridge in the world when it was constructed, was the first bridge over the Hudson south of Albany. It provided a direct link for coalfields of Pennsylvania to the New England market. More than engineering history, this book also examines the lives of the people who worked on the bridge or drove trains over it and the proposals to reuse the structure after the fire of 1974. Publisher: Purple Mountain Pr Ltd Sales Rank: 794,610 Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $24.00    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 21-Aug-2003    Hits : 53    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  Burlington Northern and Its Heritage     By : Steve Glischinski This is an all-color look at the Burlington Route, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Spokane, Portland & Seattle and the Frisco...five rail-roads that formed the Burlington Northern. Publisher: Motorbooks International Sales Rank: 461,274 Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $39.95    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 11-Aug-2003    Hits : 70    Rating : 0    Votes: 0  Chessie Era     By : Thomas, Jr. Dixon A rich and colorful look at one of the most beloved railroads in history......The Chesapeake and Ohio. This book concetrates specifically on the C&O, B&O and WM forming Chessie System in 1972, up through the merger with Seaboard System to form CSX in 1986. lots of great color photos illustrate the highly acclaimed Chessie Cat and her gorgeous locomotives and rolling stock. Publisher: T L C Pub Sales Rank: 760,517 Avg. Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0      Product Details/Larger Image List Price: $14.95    More Details/Buy This Item  |  Rate/Vote for This Item Added : 11-Aug-2003    Hits : 48    Rating : 0    Votes: 0

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