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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 — 13,983 ratings — published 2000
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.90 — 377 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 — 4,652 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 — 219 ratings — published 2010
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.63 — 893 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 3.87 — 1,127 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 — 552 ratings — published
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.81 — 761 ratings — published 2020
The Octopus: A Story of California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,054 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 — 2,337 ratings — published 2007
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,179 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 — 695 ratings — published 2006
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.99 — 634 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 — 63,322 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 — 6,651 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 — 136 ratings — published 2010
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 — 13,294 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 — 3,572 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 — 7,433 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 — 455 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 — 8,993 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 — 1,187 ratings — published 2010
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,437 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 — 847 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 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 — 683 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
Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.83 — 59 ratings — published 2021
“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
“In mid-sentence, there was a jolt and the unmistakable hissing sound of the steam engine was heard. The train came to life and started to roll out of the terminal, chugging away. Still hanging out of the window waving to my mother, I suddenly got a cinder in my eye from the black cloud of smoke that descended upon us. Closing the window helped, but smoke and cinders continued coming into our car. The cinder aggravated my eye most of the way to Andover, New Jersey, our destination. Now I perceived that I had two problems. The most important one was that I did not want anyone to think that I was crying, and the second one was this damn aggravating cinder in my eye. Somehow, I must have eventually removed it, but it was dirty riding on the trains back in those days…. Never mind, I was on my way!”
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