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Specific Railroads

Books covering a specific railroad or railroads. Histories and photo essays related to a specific railroad. We suggest using our search engine to be sure that you find all titles related to the railroad you're interested in.

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Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938-1992
Author: H. Roger Grant
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr (T); Reprint edition (October 1996)

This 50-year saga of the Weary Erie describes in vivid detail the turbulent last decades of a colorful, spunky, and innovative railroad. It also tells us much about what happened to American railroading, during this period: technological change, governmental over-regulation, corporate mergers, union featherbedding, uneven executive leadership, and changing patterns of travel and business. The book is illustrated with 45 photographs and drawings and 4 maps.
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Florida's Great Ocean Railway: Building the Key West Extension
Author: Dan Gallagher
Publisher: Pineapple Pr; (January 2003)

From 1905 to 1916, thousands of laborers and engineers engaged in Henry M. Flagler's amazing construction project?building a railroad line from Miami to Key West. Every mile of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway brought new surprises for the construction team. Although they were able to put the line in place for passenger service by 1912, it took four more years to complete the Extension and make Key West the southernmost rail-steamer connection in the U.S.

Building the Key West Extension was a triumph of logistics?making sure the right materials were at the right location at the right time. Considering the remoteness of the Florida Keys, the sparse and unreliable communication links available, and the massive amounts of materials that had to be moved with steam power, the completed F.E.C. Key West Extension stands as a monument to those who planned its most minute details.

Much of this book tells the story with nearly 250 old photographs, many taken by the engineers who built the Extension and most never before published. In addition, the author created many new graphics of the Keys based on old F.E.C. construction maps. Together, the photos and graphics cover all of the construction on all of the Florida Keys.
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Great Northern Railway 1945-1970 Photo Archive Volume 2
Author: Byron D. Olsen
Publisher: Iconografix; ; (October 1998)

A collection of superb photographs portraying passenger, freight, trucking and Glacier Park hotel operations. Featured are the Great Northern shops, yard, port facilities, depots, operation center and more from the Midwest to the Northwest. This 128-page, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 softbound book features 120 black & white photos.
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History of the Carolina & North-Western Railway
Author: Matthew C. Bumgarner
Publisher: Overmountain Press; 1st edition edition (January 1, 1996)

This incredibly easy-to-read work, with dozens of never- before-published photographs, traces the 140-year rise and fall and rise again of this tenacious railway. Charting the ups and downs of the line's construction-the politics, squabbling, triumphs, and failures-the author provides a microcosmic overview of American railroading in this story of a single line. Life on the railroad through the Great Depression, World War II, dieselization, and ab-sorption by Southern Railway are explored, punc-tuated by the real-life experiences of old-timers. Nearly 200 maps and photographs complement the text. Together they deliver an inspiring, historical tale of the Carolina & North-Western.
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Illinois Central Railroad: 1854 Through 1960 Photo Archive
Author: Kim D. Tschudy
Publisher: Iconografix; ; (April 2002)

Epitomized in song and story, the Illinois Central was arguably the most interesting and colorful railroad in America. Begun in 1851, the IC was the first land grant railroad in the United States. While other railroads ran east and west, the IC ran north and south, so when the Civil War began the IC was able to move 30% of all war material, supplies and troops to the battlegrounds of the South. This 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 softbound of IC locomotives and depots dating from 1854 to 1960 gives readers an intimate look at the railroad that called itself the Mainline of Mid-America. This 128-page volume includes nearly 150 black and white photos.
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Illinois Central: Main Line of Mid-America: All-Color Photography of the Largest North-South Railroad in the United States
Author: Donald J. Heimburger, Jerry Carlson (Contributor), Owen Leander (Photographer)
Publisher: Heimburger House Publishing Company; ; (January 1996)

Heimburger relives the history of this major north-south 6,700-mile railroad in 350 color photos. The 128-page 10 x 11: deluxe hardbound book highlights IC's extensive steam and diesel, freight and passenger trains, old and new suburban electric commuter cars and maintenance of way equipment, mainly form the late 1940s through the 1960s.
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Iron Horses in the Valley: The Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads, 1866-1882
Author: John R. Hildebrand
Publisher: White Mane Pub; ISBN: 1572492325

Iron Horses in the Valley provides a history of two Virginia railroads, the Valley and Shenandoah Valley. Each history describes the activities of the men who organized, planned, financed, and constructed each railroad; the reasons one succeeded; the reasons the other failed; and finally, the impact their competition had on the development of the Roanoke Valley and the transformation of the village of Big Lick into Roanoke, the Magic City.
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