Category - Transportation
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Wells Fargo
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie C...
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Journey to Titanic
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Artist Roger Bansemer gets an unexpected invitation to dive two and a half miles down into the Atlantic to the site of one of the most famous shi...
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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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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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Florida's Shipwrecks
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, part of that history includes thousands of ships th...
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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 Life of the Automobile: The Complete History of the Motor Car
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car. The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly...
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in ...
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard...
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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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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn car...
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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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Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system — in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory — is packed with fascin...
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Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1945 some experts still considered the so-called sound barrier an impenetrable wall, while winged rocket planes remained largely relegated to ...
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919—and put American aviation...
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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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Too Much Sea for Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great ...
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Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Few cars in history have grabbed the public’s fancy as much as the ill-fated Edsel—the Titanic of automobiles, a marketing disaster whose magnitu...
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Tin Stackers: The History of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Tin Stackers tells its story of the role of the U.S. Steel Corporation’s largest commercial fleet. Formed in 1901 by U.S. Steel Corporation, the ...
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Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until...
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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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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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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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