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Railroads Books
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,143 ratings — published 2000
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.90 — 379 ratings — published 1999
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,781 ratings — published 2002
Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.32 — 222 ratings — published 2010
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.63 — 913 ratings — published 2011
Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,167 ratings — published 2019
Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.75 — 128 ratings — published 2013
Blood, Iron and Gold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.77 — 417 ratings — published 2009
From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.68 — 571 ratings — published
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.81 — 793 ratings — published 2020
The Octopus: A Story of California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,081 ratings — published 1901
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,386 ratings — published 2007
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,201 ratings — published 2013
Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.99 — 705 ratings — published 2006
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.99 — 650 ratings — published 2012
Trains Across the Continent: North American Railroad History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2000
Steam, Steel, and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.62 — 58 ratings — published 1987
American Railroads (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.58 — 48 ratings — published 1978
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.80 — 65,474 ratings — published 2021
Cinders & Smoke : A Mile by Mile Guide for the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.35 — 23 ratings — published 1989
Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.88 — 505 ratings — published 2014
The daughter of a magnate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.97 — 34 ratings — published 1903
The Boundless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,693 ratings — published 2014
Intermodal Railroading (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2007
Railroads of the Civil War: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2010
The Last Steam Railroad in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.64 — 55 ratings — published 1995
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.68 — 139 ratings — published 2010
Southern Pacific Railroad (MBI Railroad Color History)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1999
The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2011
Southern Pacific's Blue Streak Merchandise: Six decades of the Great American Freight Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1992
Landmarks on the Iron Road: Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering (Railroads Past and Present)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 1999
Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.77 — 13,610 ratings — published 2008
The Pennsylvania Railroad Under Wire (Golden Years of Railroading)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 2002
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,623 ratings — published 1991
A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.56 — 16 ratings — published 1988
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,513 ratings — published 2008
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.01 — 459 ratings — published 1977
When the Steam Railroads Electrified (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 1974
SEMMENS:HOW STEAM LOCOMOTIVES REALLY WORK PAPER (Popular Science)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.96 — 53 ratings — published 2000
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,072 ratings — published 2009
Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,196 ratings — published 2010
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,664 ratings — published 1975
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.96 — 860 ratings — published 2007
Cripple Creek Railroads (Pamphlet)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Voices from the Railroad: Stories by Descendants of Chinese Railroad Workers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
Seldom Willing: A novel of railroading (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.40 — 47 ratings — published
Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.82 — 38 ratings — published 2005
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.14 — 35 ratings — published 1986
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.88 — 701 ratings — published 2023
Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 1994
“He had been in New York the whole year managing his father's winery and office in lower Manhattan, but now he'd come home by train for Christmas--and the world was wonderful. Three thousand miles was nothing, you got on a train, you had your own private little room, you changed at Chicago, you ate great meals in the diner, you read mystery stories and newspapers in the club car, and then all of a sudden there you were back in Fresno, and there everybody was, standing on the station platform waiting for you. Who could ask for anything more?”
― Places Where I've Done Time
― Places Where I've Done Time
“The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.”
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