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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,845 ratings — published 2000
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.90 — 372 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 — 4,569 ratings — published 2002
Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.30 — 214 ratings — published 2010
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.63 — 874 ratings — published 2011
Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.75 — 126 ratings — published 2013
Blood, Iron and Gold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.77 — 400 ratings — published 2009
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.81 — 732 ratings — published 2020
Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,077 ratings — published 2019
The Octopus: A Story of California (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,032 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 3.99 — 2,307 ratings — published 2007
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,152 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 — 688 ratings — published 2006
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.98 — 620 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 4.65 — 57 ratings — published 1987
American Railroads (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.67 — 45 ratings — published 1978
From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.68 — 533 ratings — published
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 3.89 — 493 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 — 6,613 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 3.66 — 134 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 3.76 — 13,057 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 — 3,535 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 — 7,364 ratings — published 2008
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 — 8,913 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 4.20 — 1,171 ratings — published 2010
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 — 841 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
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 — 677 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
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.92 — 119 ratings — published
Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 4.00 — 17 ratings — published 1965
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.81 — 61,672 ratings — published 2021
To The Edge Of The World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as railroads)
avg rating 3.87 — 439 ratings — published 2013
“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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“For the most part, four-car self-propelled Budd railcars presently connect Santiago de Cuba with Havana on the Central line. The flagship of the system is a 12-coach train originally used between Paris and Amsterdam. Although buses competed with the railroad, they all became nationalized after the revolution. Attempting to prevent the decay of the Cuban system, British Rail helped during the 1960’s by supplying new locomotives. However, this slowed and eventually came to a halt after the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Eastern Bloc and countries that continued to be friendly with Cuba, such as Canada, Spain and Mexico, took over. During the past decade China, Iran and Venezuela became Cuba’s primary benefactors and suppliers. Cuba has had long-range plans to update and modernize its railroad system. These plans are presently being realized and the upgrading and modernizing of the country’s 26,000 miles of track and replacing older locomotives, including some steam engines, with powerful and modern diesel-fueled locomotives are becoming a reality.
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