Category - Transportation
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Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The period of 1890-1950 marked the romantic era of steam power as the rails reached deep into the old growth of the Adirondack woods to harvest t...
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Railroads, Art, and American Life: An Artist's Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Explore the past, present, and future of rail travel through 30 years of one artist's work.Once a common part of the American landscape, trains a...
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Railroad Depots of Michigan: 1910-1920
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Michigan has a rich railroad history, which began in November 1836, when the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad initiated service between Toledo, Ohio, ...
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History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which journalist Lucius Beebe once called the “Mother of Railroads,” was the brainchild of Baltimore city planne...
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Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway: History and Steam Locomotives
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis RailwayHistory and Steam Locomotives Richard E. PrinceRichard E. Prince's long out-of-print encyclopedic s...
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Buried Dreams: The Hoosac Tunnel and the Demise of the Railroad Age
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par wi...
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The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and...
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The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land--America's railroads--The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the mo...
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The Diesel That Did It: General Motors' FT Locomotive
HardcoverOriginal price $49.00Original price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary diesel-electric locomotive, the FT.As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the ...
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Re...
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American Steam Locomotives: Design and Development, 1880-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /For nearly half of the nation's history, the steam locomotive was the outstanding symbol for progress and power. It was the literal engine of the...
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Last Train to Texas: My Railroad Odyssey
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Midnight train rides, head-on freight collisions--there is never a dull moment when it comes to trains. Take a look at America's biggest railroad...
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History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With far...
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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest en...
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Electric Interurbans and the American People
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shopper...
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Railroads and American Law
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Rai...
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Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
HardcoverOriginal price $58.95 - Original price $58.95Original price $58.95$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /Rising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest railroad filed for bankruptcy, American railroads are once again ...
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When Trains Ruled the Kootenays: A Short History of Railways in Southeastern British Columbia
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /When Trains Ruled the Kootenays is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from th...
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of America's past. Spiritually, their j...
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Hotel-Train: Revolutionise night trains with a real rolling hotel
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /"Hotel-Train" introduces a new concept of night train.It is fundamentally a design manual. An impressive, extensive invention of this new object: a...
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Locomotives: The Modern Diesel and Electric Reference
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"This new oversize, full color book is the 'Diesel Spotter's Guide' on steroids. ... After you get Locomotives, you'll WANT to go out and see what...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who fina...
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Cars, Trains, and Planes Collection
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00Original price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00Current price $91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /This box set contains three books - Car, Train, and Aircraft - a celebration of more than two centuries of transport history across the world.Cha...
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The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings explores the life and influential work of Dr. Philip R. "Phil" Hastings (1925-1987). Along with his conte...
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