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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 — 13,949 ratings — published 2000
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.90 — 374 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 — 4,641 ratings — published 2002
Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.31 — 217 ratings — published 2010
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.63 — 891 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 — 1,123 ratings — published 2019
Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.74 — 127 ratings — published 2013
Blood, Iron and Gold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.77 — 409 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 — 550 ratings — published
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.81 — 756 ratings — published 2020
The Octopus: A Story of California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,051 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 4.00 — 2,334 ratings — published 2007
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,178 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 3.98 — 694 ratings — published 2006
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.98 — 631 ratings — published 2012
Trains Across the Continent: North American Railroad History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 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 3.65 — 46 ratings — published 1978
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.81 — 63,017 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 — 495 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 — 6,652 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 3.67 — 135 ratings — published 2010
Railroad Signaling (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.14 — 50 ratings — published 2003
Southern Pacific Railroad (MBI Railroad Color History)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.50 — 12 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 — 13,240 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 — 3,567 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 — 7,422 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 — 454 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 3.94 — 51 ratings — published 2000
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,974 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 — 1,182 ratings — published 2010
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,379 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 3.97 — 848 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 4.39 — 46 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 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 — 684 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
“If there was one thing I understood about Katie, it was that she came to this country after a childhood defined by the kind of poverty the poorest American could scarcely imagine.”
― Murder at Ochre Court
― Murder at Ochre Court
“The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.”
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