Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road, The: Dreams of Linking North and South
by H. Roger Grant
The Track Of The Ironmasters - A History Of The Cleator And Workington Junction Railway
by W. McGowan Gradon
The pages of this book spectacularly reveal the story of the French train that has become synonymous with luxury travel. Starting with its creation and early years at the end of the nineteenth century, up to its present-day existence as a luxury travelling hotel, The Orient Express reveals the stories of the remarkable people who designed, built, and maintained the train, as well as those who travelled on board. Through expert text, The Orient Express is unique in the way it looks at both th...
This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley’s work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocr...
The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route (The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route)
Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Routes Not Taken explores the often dramatic stories behind the unbuilt or unfinished subway lines, shedding light on a significant part of New York City's history that has been almost completely ignored...
Automation of Soviet Railroads
A great little book about romantic holiday steamers and the small train that linked them.
Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas (Images of Rail)
by David M Bernstein
