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New Arrivals $65.00 Hardcover add to wishlist The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs by Jim Shaughnessy Jim Shaughnessy $37.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Santa Fe Railway (MBI Railroad Color History) Steve Glischinski $40.00 Hardcover add to wishlist The Lionel Legend: An American Icon Robert Schleicher $35.00 Hardcover add to wishlist American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated Mark Wegman $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Classic American Locomotives: The 1909 Classic on Steam Locomotive Technology (Classic) Charles Mcshane $70.75 Hardcover add to wishlist Britain's Railway, 1997-2005: Labour's Strategic Experiment Terry Gourvish $65.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-Era Japan Dan Free $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist The Duchesses: The Story of Britain's Ultimate Steam Locomotives Andrew Roden $34.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Practical Introduction to Digital Command Control for Railway Modellers Nigel Burkin $25.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway Eddie Lenihan General Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... (read more) Your Price $3.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Sale Books Collectors Guide to Prewar Lionel Trains: 1900-1942 (Collector's Guide to Pre-War Lionel Trains: 1900-1942) by David Doyle Publisher Comments ? Explores and identifies the trains drawing the greatest collector values in the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your Price $13.00 (Sale - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Lionel: A Century of Timeless Toy Trains by Dan Ponzol Publisher Comments “With its lavish color pictures...[this book] should elicit nostalgic smiles from anyone who grew up with the company’s electric toy trains....the text...chronicles the company’s history and its place in an era of optimistic... (read more) Your Price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Railroads to your inbox Electric and Street Railroads Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden Publisher Comments Using glorious, colorful graphics, Ovenden traces the story of mass transit in this comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system around the world.... (read more) Your Price $25.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Pacific Northwest Portland's Streetcars: (Images of Rail) by Richard Thompson Publisher Comments Street railways arrived early in Portland and made lasting social and economic contributions that are still apparent in the layout and character of the city's neighborhoods today. During the 1890s, streetcar lines spread rapidly into the West Hills and... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your Price $13.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies World The Encyclopedia of Trains and Locomotives by David Ross Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide to locomotive development includes descriptions of more than 900 trains and locomotives. Arranged in four sections ? steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, and trains ? listed chronologically within each... (read more) Your Price $19.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies Pictorials Railroads of the Columbia River Gorge (Images of Rail) by D. C. Jesse Burkhardt Publisher Comments Before the rails were up and running along the stunning Columbia River landscape of Oregon and Washington, 19th-century westward travelers faced treacherous conditions. Many emigrants perished before reaching Oregon Territory. Only recently have railways... (read more) Your Price $19.99 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Steam Railroads The Last Steam Railroad in America by Thomas Garver Publisher Comments O. Winston Link began photographing the Norfolk and Western, the last major steam railroad in America, in the mid-1950s, when the N&W was converting its operations from steam to diesel. He was pursuing a decade-old vision of photographing steam... (read more) Your Price $19.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies Hoboes Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann Publisher Comments Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into... (read more) Your Price $16.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Travel Great American Rail Journeys by John Grant Publisher Comments Great American Rail Journeys takes you on location to eight of North America's most scenic and historically rich landscapes. Each of the rail adventures profiled in this volume - a counterpart to the highly praised public television programs - celebrates... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies North America Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David H Bain From Powells.com The completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10th, 1869 was one of the defining moments in American history. News of the railroad's completion was simultaneously broadcast across the country via morse code, and the recently reunited nation... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Trolleys and Subways Greater Erie Trolleys (Images of Rail) by Kenneth Springirth Publisher Comments When the first electric trolley car entered service in Erie in 1889, it revolutionized public transportation in the region. Within a few years, Erie became a major trolley hub linking the eastern and central United States. With the exception of a 15-mile... (read more) Your Price $19.99 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies

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