The Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways
by W. A. C. Smith and Paul Anderson
Milwaukee Road Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment
by Doug Nighswonger
A great little book about romantic holiday steamers and the small train that linked them.
Irish Railway Memories: A Decade of Change - 1984-1994
by Paul Haywood
The Cheadle Heath to Chinley (Scenes from the Past S., #16)
by E M Johnson
Lackawanna Railroad Trackside with Henry Peterson
by Michael J Del Vecchio
Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas (Images of Rail)
by David M Bernstein
The opportunity to commit crime on the railways began from the day they were being built. The crimes both mirrored the range of those committed outside and existed in a microcosm of their own. It was the work of the various railway company police forces and predecessor forces to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators. This book takes us back from the very early days of railway policing to the halcyon days of the 1940s to the 1980s when policing methods, image and perception were refle...
This book focuses on steam on the Scottish Lowlands and Borders, which broadly covers the area north of the line from Carlisle to Newcastle and south of the line from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Written by author and rail enthusiast Michael Clemens, this volume provides a pictorial tribute of this area's final years of steam operation. The volume provides a large selection of photographs which were taken by the author and his father during their travels around the UK. The book also includes photograp...
Zhen Tong Zhong Di Tie Lu Da Shu Niu
by Lilin Gao and Jianwen Zhang
The Transcontinental Railroad (Milestones in American History)
by Edward J Renehan, Jr.
In May 1869, the U.S. railroad network unified when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads came together in Promontory, Utah. ""The Transcontinental Railroad"" discusses this important milestone in the expansion of the United States and its impact on the nation, both positive and negative. This book tells how the east-west railroad played an integral role in opening western markets to residents of the eastern United States, but it also examines how the railroad led to the demise of many...
The Great Western Railway route from Paddington to Fishguard was the company's attempt to compete with the London & North Western Railway's Irish route between Euston and Holyhead and to compete for mail traffic to Dublin. While the GWR failed to take the mail contract for Dublin, the company did win mail contracts for the south of Ireland and were involved in developments of the railways there, not least the Great Southern & Western Railway, which ran anywhere between Rosslare, Waterford, Cork,...