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Railways Books

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Blood, Iron and Gold
British Rail
Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
The Subterranean Railway
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Christmas Train
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Most Read This Week

To The Edge Of The World
The Stationmaster's Farewell (The Railway Detective #9)
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
Blood on the Line (The Railway Detective, #8)
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Lists

Denver's Railroads by Kenton Forrest
Best Colorado Railroad Books
1 book — 1 voter
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. AmbroseLast Train to Paradise by Les StandifordEmpire Express by David Haward BainThe Iron Road by Christian WolmarShe Rode the Rails by Beverly Adam
Railroad History
39 books — 10 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneThe 39 Steps by John BuchanMr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher IsherwoodThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Trains And Railways
39 books — 6 voters
The Great Railroad Revolution by Christian WolmarEmpire Express by David Haward BainRailroads Across North America by Claude WiatrowskiModel Railway Men by Ray PopeThe Texas Railroad by Wayne Cline
A Railfan's List
67 books — 5 voters

The Trouble with Jacob by Eloise Jarvis McGrawThe Ghost Upstairs by Lila Sprague McGinnisZero to Hero by Henry WinklerOllie Oxley and the Ghost by Lisa SchmidHaunted Woods by Bernice Anderson Poole
Ghost Boys Wearing Suspenders (covers)
8 books — 1 voter
A Superior Man by Paul YeeThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre BoulleFantasmas del Oriente by Imanol CaneyadaThe Iron Moonhunter (Fifth World Tales) by Kathleen ChangNot in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Chinese and other exploited Railroad Workers in Fiction
16 books — 5 voters


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“ More coal, more smoke, more heat, more steam, more pressure, more speed. The engine raced forward streaming black smoke like a funerary ribbon rippling in the breeze. ”
― Martin R Jackson : Running with Finn McCool
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“ A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is made visible, and it moves as the landscape moves. ”
― Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
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