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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New Yorkby Clifton HoodISBN 0801880548 (0-8018-8054-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr - 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York: ISBN 067167756X (0-671-67756-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - 722 Miles: The Building Of The Subways And How They Transformed New York: ISBN 0801880548 (0-8018-8054-8)
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- 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York: ISBN 0801852447 (0-8018-5244-7)
All Aboard!: The Story of Joshua Lionel Cowen and His Lionel Train Companyby Ron HollanderISBN 0761121331 (0-7611-2133-1)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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All Aboard!: The Railroad in American Lifeby George H. DouglasISBN 1569248761 (1-56924-876-1)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Hardcover, Marlowe & Co - All Abroad!: The Railroad in American Life: ISBN 0765197367 (0-7651-9736-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub - All Aboard!: The Railroad in American Life: ISBN 1569248761 (1-56924-876-1)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
- All Aboard!: The Railroad in American Life: ISBN 1569249849 (1-56924-984-9)
America's Colorful Railroadsby Ball, Don, Jr.ISBN 0517304880 (0-517-30488-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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America's Colorful Railroadsby Don BallISBN 0891695176 (0-89169-517-6)
Hardcover, Reed Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Colorful Railroads'Book summary:1978, 1st, Reed Books, Los Angeles, CA. Hardcover title, 215 pages. 280 full-color illustrations. History of railroads in the 1940s and 50s, and a study of railroad photography. [via]
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American Heritage History of Railroads in Americaby Oliver JensenISBN 0517362368 (0-517-36236-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The American Railroad Freight Car : From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steelby White, John H., Jr.ISBN 0801852366 (0-8018-5236-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The American Railroad Passenger Carby John H. WhiteISBN 0801827434 (0-8018-2743-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The American Railroad Passenger Car, Part Iby John H. WhiteISBN 0801827221 (0-8018-2722-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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American Shortline Railway Guideby Edward A. LewisISBN 0890240736 (0-89024-073-6)
Softcover, Kalmbach Pub Co
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American Shortline Railway Guide: Facts, Figures, and Locomotive Rosters for over 500 Short Linesby Edward A. LewisISBN 0890242909 (0-89024-290-9)
Softcover, Kalmbach Pub Co
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0451191145 (0-451-19114-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas Shrugged'Book summary:At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback.
With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers.
Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit.
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club [via]More editions of Atlas Shrugged:
- Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0452011876 (0-452-01187-6)
Softcover, Plume - Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0452286360 (0-452-28636-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0525948929 (0-525-94892-9)
Hardcover, E P Dutton - Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0451171926 (0-451-17192-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0525934189 (0-525-93418-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0451191145 (0-451-19114-5)
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- Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0452011876 (0-452-01187-6)
Boomer: Railroad Memoirsby Linda G. NiemannISBN 0939416557 (0-939416-55-7)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Companyby H. Roger GrantISBN 0875800955 (0-87580-095-5)
Hardcover, Northern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company'Book summary:[via]The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built by the iconoclastic and ambitious A. B. Stickney, proved to be exceptionally innovative as it developed new ways to compete with larger railroads. Pitted against tough, determined competitors, the CGW during its eighty-five years made innovations that changed the history of American transportation. Among the pioneering activities for which the Great Western is remembered are the early use of internal combustion equipment, the hauling of truck trailers atop flatcars ("piggy-backs"), and the use of extremely long freight trains. Indeed, much of the railroad's past supports the notion that smaller, less-established carriers like the CGW frequently stimulated changes in industry thinking and practices.
In spite of its innovations, the path of the Great Western, sometimes called the "Great Weedy," did not always run smoothly. In the 1930s, John W. Barriger III quipped, "The Chicago Great Western is a mountain railroad in a prairie country serving a traffic vacuum." Such a negative assessment was not uncommon for this Granger pike, which in fact climbed some steep grades and owned a long tunnel. And while the road did not operate in a "traffic vacuum," its competitors were well entrenched and robust. By 1903, the CGW served the strategic gateways of Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Joseph, and Omaha. Between Chicago and the Twin Cities alone, the company competed with six other roads. When the Chicago & North Western acquired the Great Western in 1968, one of America's most imaginative railroads disappeared.
The Corn Belt Route is the first scholarly treatment of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, a company that has long intrigued the railfan, whether collector, modeler, photographer, or historian. Richly illustrated, this book tells the lively story of one of the great small railroads that once served the Midwest.More editions of The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company:
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Cowboys, Miners, Presidents & Kings: The Story of the Grand Canyon Railwayby Al RichmondISBN 0933269021 (0-933269-02-1)
Softcover, Grand Canyon Railway
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Diesel Locomotive Rosters: U.S., Canada, Mexicoby Charles W. McDonaldISBN 0890241120 (0-89024-112-0)
Softcover, Kalmbach Pub Co
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Diesel Locomotive Rosters: U.S., Canada, Mexicoby George H. Drury, Charles W. McDonaldISBN 0890240841 (0-89024-084-1)
Softcover, Kalmbach Books
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Diesel Locomotive Rosters: United States, Canada, Mexicoby George H. Drury, Charles W. McDonaldISBN 0890240434 (0-89024-043-4)
Softcover, Kalmbach Books
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Ed Nowak's New York Centralby Ed Nowak, Karl R. ZimmermannISBN 093765809X (0-937658-09-X)
Hardcover, Ptj Pub
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Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroadby David Haward BainISBN 0140084991 (0-14-008499-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad'Book summary:On the morning of May 10, 1869, a gang of Irish immigrants met a party of Chinese laborers on a windy bluff northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. Tired to the bone, the two groups laid down the last of countless wooden ties, bought at the exorbitant cost of six dollars apiece, and thus joined two great rail lines, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, to form a single transcontinental route. That rail line made possible the mass settlement of the West, and, as those who conceived it well knew, it changed the course of American history.
David Haward Bain's superb narrative of westward rail history, weighing in at 800 pages, ends not with this great achievement but with the political and financial scandal that would almost overshadow it. Along the way Bain looks closely at the entrepreneurial men who foresaw the possibilities of a vast nation joined by a steel ribbon--most memorably the hit-and-miss businessman Asa Whitney, who proposed to Congress an ingenious scheme to fund the building of the railroad through commercializing the right of way. Some of the men who came after Whitney, such as Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford, amassed great fortunes in realizing this dream. Others died penniless and nearly forgotten in the wake of political maneuverings and bad deals. Bain's vigorous, well-written narrative does much to restore those overlooked actors to history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Forty Feet Below: The Story of Chicago's Freight Tunnelsby Bruce MoffatISBN 0916374548 (0-916374-54-8)
Softcover, Pentrex
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The Great Railroad Raceby Kristiana GregoryISBN 059010991X (0-590-10991-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Railroad Race'Book summary:In Kristiana Gregory's third book for the Dear America series, a fourteen-year-old girl records the momentous building of the Transcontinental Railroad. [via]
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The Great Railway Bazaarby Paul TherouxISBN 0618658947 (0-618-65894-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asiaby Paul TherouxISBN 067172648X (0-671-72648-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Great Train Robberyby Michael CrichtonISBN 1568492685 (1-56849-268-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive.... [via]More editions of The Great Train Robbery:
- The Great Train Robbery: ISBN 034539092X (0-345-39092-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Great Train Robbery: ISBN 0440130999 (0-440-13099-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Great Train Robbery: ISBN 0394494016 (0-394-49401-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Great Train Robbery: ISBN 081616228X (0-8161-6228-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Great Train Robbery: ISBN 1568492685 (1-56849-268-5)
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the Westby Lesley Poling-KempesISBN 1569249261 (1-56924-926-1)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blowby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0701122323 (0-7011-2232-3)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0030169364 (0-03-016936-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroadsby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0805068929 (0-8050-6892-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Heartlandby Greg McDonnellISBN 1550460641 (1-55046-064-1)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartland'Book summary:Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the five states featured in this spectacular collection, once boasted nearly 45,000 route-miles of railroad within their boundaries.Photographs by the author and many other talented rail photographers capture the essence and the spirit of railroading in America's heartland.
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Highball: A Pageant of Trainsby Lucius BeebeISBN 0517004208 (0-517-00420-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Last Steam Railroad in Americaby Winston O. Link, Thomas H. GarverISBN 0810982013 (0-8109-8201-3)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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The Last Steam Railroad in America: From Tidewater to Whitetopby O. Winston Link, Thomas H. GarverISBN 0810935759 (0-8109-3575-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Lehigh and New England Railroad: Color Retrospectby Douglas LillyISBN 0962084409 (0-9620844-0-9)
Hardcover, Garrigues House Pub
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Making Tracks: An American Rail Odysseyby Terry PindellISBN 0805017402 (0-8050-1740-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Metropolitan Corridorby John StilgoeISBN 0300034814 (0-300-03481-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Milwaukee Road in Color: In Colorby William F. Stauss, William A. Raia, Jeffrey M. KoellerISBN 1878887467 (1-878887-46-7)
Hardcover, Morning Sun Books
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The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Yearsby August William Derleth, Roger H. GrantISBN 0877458014 (0-87745-801-4)
Softcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Montana Rail Annualby Mallory H. Ferrell, Rex C. Myers, Cornelius W. HauckISBN 0918654157 (0-918654-15-7)
Hardcover, Colorado Railroad Museum
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Next Stop Grand Central: A Trip Through Time on New York's Metropolitan Area Commuter Railroadsby Stan FischlerISBN 0919783228 (0-919783-22-8)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Norfolk & Western Railway--Pocahontas Coal Carrier: Precision Transportationby Richard E. PrinceISBN 0960008896 (0-9600088-9-6)
Hardcover, R.E. Prince
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Nothing Like It in the Worldby Stephen AmbroseISBN 0613501349 (0-613-50134-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0743203178 (0-7432-0317-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869'Book summary:Abraham Lincoln, who had worked as a riverboat pilot before turning to politics, knew a thing or two about the problems of transporting goods and people from place to place. He was also convinced that the United States would flourish only if its far-flung regions were linked, replacing sectional loyalties with an overarching sense of national destiny.
Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian Stephen Ambrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln's presidential agenda. Through an ambitious program of land grants and low-interest government loans, he encouraged entrepreneurs such as California's "Big Four"--Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Leland Stanford--to take on the task of stringing steel rails from ocean to ocean. The real work of doing so, of course, was on the shoulders of immigrant men and women, mostly Chinese and Irish. These often-overlooked actors and what a contemporary called their "dreadful vitality" figure prominently in Ambrose's narrative, alongside the great financiers and surveyors who populate the standard textbooks.
In the end, Ambrose writes, Lincoln's dream transformed the nation, marking "the first great triumph over time and space" and inaugurating what has come to be known as the American Century. David Haward Bain's Empire Express, which covers the same ground, is more substantial, but Ambrose provides an eminently readable study of a complex episode in American history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go Westby David Haward BainISBN 0670033081 (0-670-03308-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Oxford Companion to British Railway History: From 1603 to the 1990sby Jack Simmons, Gordon BiddleISBN 0198662386 (0-19-866238-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Plugged Nickelby Robert CampbellISBN 0671643630 (0-671-64363-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Railroad That Died at Sea: The Florida East Coast's Key West Extensionby Pat ParksISBN 0911607056 (0-911607-05-6)
Softcover, Langley Pr
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Railroad: What It Is, What It Does The Introduction to Railroadingby John ArmstorngISBN 0911382046 (0-911382-04-6)
Softcover, Simmons Boardman Pub Co
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The Railroads of the Confederacyby Robert C. BlackISBN 0807847291 (0-8078-4729-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Railroads the Great American Adventureby Charlton OgburnISBN 0870441892 (0-87044-189-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through Chinaby Paul TherouxISBN 0618658971 (0-618-65897-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Softcover, Random House Value Pub - Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China: ISBN 0399133097 (0-399-13309-7)
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Riding the Railsby Michael MathersISBN 0876450788 (0-87645-078-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Common Pr
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Rio Grande: Chasing the Narrow Gaugeby Robert W. RichardsonISBN 0911581537 (0-911581-53-7)
Hardcover, Heimburger House Pub Co
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Rio Grande Secret Places: Ruby Canyon and the Desertby R. C. FarewellISBN 0918654580 (0-918654-58-0)
Hardcover, Colorado Railroad Museum
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Rio Grande Secret Places: The Tunnel Districtby R. C. FarewellISBN 0918654556 (0-918654-55-6)
Hardcover, Colorado Railroad Museum
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Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Themby Katie Letcher LyleISBN 0945575017 (0-945575-01-7)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Starlight on the Railsby Jeff Brouws, Ed DelversISBN 0810982307 (0-8109-8230-7)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Starlight on the Rails: Photographsby Jeffrey T. Brouws, Jeff Brouws, Ed Delvers, Richard SteinheimerISBN 0810941678 (0-8109-4167-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starlight on the Rails: Photographs'Book summary:The years between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s saw a flowering of railroad photography in America. Photographers vied with one another to find archetypal railroad scenes that they recorded with novelistic precision. The most demanding technical efforts, however, were devoted to capturing the railroads at night. Here, in a stylish and moving book, are the last great steam engines, lonely motormen, silent stations, and more, all evoking the spirit of night railroading-as quintessentially American as cool jazz-in its glory days.
Starlight on the Rails celebrates the work of mostly unsung artists in stirring duotone photographs. The authors of this book and their 20-odd fellows-all highly skilled masters of lighting and composition-created visual poetry that memorializes an aspect of American life that will long be fondly remembered.
JEFF BROUWS grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, simultaneously discovering trains, photography, and the writing of Jack Kerouac at the age of 13. His photographs have appeared in several books, including Highway: America's Endless Dream. He now lives with his wife in Red Hook, New York.
EDWARD DELVERS traveled the country photographing trains through the late 1960s, then studied photographic science at MIT under the tutelage of Dr. Harold Edgerton. He has since worked in fields from aviation to satellite communications. He lives in Techachapi, California.
RICHARD STEINHEIMER, whom many consider the dean of American railroad photographers, has published numerous articles in Trains magazine and several books. He lives in Sacramento, California.
90 photographs in duotone, 6 photographs in full color, 113/8 x 105/8" [via]
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Stations: An Imagined Journeyby Michael FlanaganISBN 0679435476 (0-679-43547-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stations: An Imagined Journey'Book summary:A Virginia farmer narrates the story of his family and of the railroad that has shaped the lives and fates of his family for generations, chronicling the history of the railroad through a collection of evocative photographs. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. [via]
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Steam, Steel, and Stars : America's Last Steam Railroadby Winston O. Link, Tim HensleyISBN 0810981858 (0-8109-8185-8)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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The Time of the Trolley: The Street Railway from Horsecar to Light Rail Centennial of the Trolley, 1887-1987by William D. MiddletonISBN 0870950983 (0-87095-098-3)
Hardcover, Golden West Books
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Trans Siberian Handbookby TrailblazerISBN 1873756704 (1-873756-70-4)
Softcover, Trail Blazer Pubns
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Trans-Siberian Handbookby Bryn Thomas, James PitkinISBN 1873756941 (1-873756-94-1)
Softcover, Trail Blazer Pubns
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Trans-Siberian Handbookby Athol Yates, Byr Thomas, Tatyana Pozar-BurgarISBN 187375616X (1-873756-16-X)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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A Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads, and Songs of the American Railroad Manby Benjamin A. BotkinISBN 0517168685 (0-517-16868-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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White Pass Gateway to the Klondikeby Roy MinterISBN 0912006331 (0-912006-33-1)
Softcover, Univ of Alaska Pr
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Workin' on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steamby Richard ReinhardtISBN 0806135255 (0-8061-3525-5)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across Americaby Henry KisorISBN 155850477X (1-55850-477-X)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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La rebelion del atlas/ The Rebellion of the Atlasby Ayn RandISBN 9872095116 (987-20951-1-6)
Softcover, Grito Sagrado Editorial
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