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Trains Across the Continent : North American Railroad History
Author: Rudolph Daniels
Publisher: Indiana Univ Press

The best current railroad history available . . . everything you need to know . . . both educational and enjoyable reading. --Dean Bruce, President, Railroad Education Training Association

Trains Across the Continent truly is a comprehensive account of how railroads helped shpae and are continuing to shape the history of North America. --Jonathan B. Hanna, Historian, Canadian Pacific Railway

Updated maps, new appendices, a greatly expanded bibliography, detailed discussions of the recent proposed mergers of the Canadian Pacific and the Burlington, of the diesel locomotive, and of railroad electrification make Trains Across the Continent the complete and concise introduction to North American railroads.
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(Added: 8-Jan-2001) - Customer Rating: 0 Votes: 0

Trains and Technology : The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century (Trains and Technology, Vol 1)
Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr; ISBN: 0874137292

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(Added: 21-Sep-2001) - Customer Rating: 7.5 Votes: 2

Two Generations on the Allegheny Portage Railroad: The First Railroad to Cross the Allegheny Mountains
Author: Christopher Jon Lewie
Publisher: White Mane Publishing Co.; (May 16, 2001)

During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entire communities developed around railroad depots?some prospered, while others died with the fortunes of the transportation tycoons who invested all of their finances into railroad construction. Cambria County in western Pennsylvania was one such settlement. This remote mountain location was at the forefront of railroading technology and competition during the mid-19th century. The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal System sought a way to cross the Alleghenies. The system had to compete with the Erie and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canals to secure the lucrative western freight traffic. The Allegheny Portage Railroad, one of the first in the country, was not just part of the industrial age?it was the start of the industrial age in America.
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(Added: 19-Jun-2003) - Customer Rating: 9.33 Votes: 3

Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: University Press of New England; 1st edition (April 15, 1994)

A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian.

Soundly researched, perceptively focused, and persuasively argued. Maury Klein writes beautifully. His prose is clear, crisp, and lively and flows with that deceptively effortless ease that we all wish for. ? Charles W. Cheape, Loyola College

the nation?s foremost historian of railroads . . . has gathered an extraordinary collection of his essays; they are authoritative and engrossing?H. Roger Grant.
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United States Military Railway Service
Author: Don Denevi, Bob Hall
Publisher: Stoddart Pub

United States Military Railway Service : America's Soldier-Railroaders in WWII
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When Any Time Was Train Time
Author: Elizabeth A. Willmot
Publisher: Stoddart Pub : Boston Mills Press

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(Added: 31-Mar-2001) - Customer Rating: 0 Votes: 0

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