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  • Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads

    The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia

    by Myron J. Smith, , Jr. ...
    A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often ... Read more

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  • Around the World in 80 Trains

    A 45,000-Mile Adventure

    by Monisha Rajesh ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOKSHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world. Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael PalinFrom the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet's Qinghai ... Read more

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  • The Peking Express

    The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

    by James M Zimmerman ...
    The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era.In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury ... Read more

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  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    by Tim Parks ...
    The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny ... Read more

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  • Train Lord

    The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track

    by Oliver Mol ...
    The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all'An intimate preservation of a moment in time, full of personality' THE TIMES__________Life is beautiful - even in the dark . . .Oliver Mol was happily drifting through his twenties when the migraine exploded in his head.Suddenly, he could barely function. He felt marooned. Nothing helpe... ... Read more

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  • Transportation Engineering

    Volume II: Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours, Bridges and Tunnels

    by C Venkatramaiah ...
    Transportation Engineering, Volume II deals at length, in five distinct parts, with the engineering aspects of Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours and Bridges and Tunnels that form part of the undergraduate curriculum in Transportation Engineering and caters to the needs of civil engineering courses offered by technical universities across India. While the first three parts, along with Volume I ... Read more

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  • Tooele Valley Railroad

    by Emma Louise Penrod ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Shortly after the International Smelter offered economic salvation to Tooele�s struggling desert community, the Tooele Valley Railroad became the town artery. Though originally built in 1908 to connect the smelter to the Union Pacific and Western Pacific lines west of town, the railroad became central to daily life. Hundreds of local workers rode it to and from work each day. As technology ... Read more

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  • Railways of the British Empire: Australasia and Beyond

    by Colin Alexander, Alon Siton ...
    Long before Brexit, the Common Market and even the Commonwealth, Britannia truly did rule the waves. Perhaps more unsung is the fact that she also ruled the rails over much of the world, for Britain’s engineers effectively exported the Industrial Revolution and specifically the railway around the globe. This was especially true in that forerunner of the Commonwealth, the British Empire. In those ... Read more

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  • Catechism of the locomotive

    by Matthias Nace Forney, Georg Kosak ...
    Catechism of the Locomotive by M. N. Forney is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the principles, construction, and operation of the steam locomotive, first published in the late 19th century. Written in a question-and-answer format, the book serves as both an educational resource and a practical manual for engineers, mechanics, students, and railway enthusiasts. Forney, a renowned ... Read more

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  • Grand Central Terminal

    Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City

    by Kurt C. Schlichting ...
    More than a history of a train station—the story of a city and an age, as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award in Architecture from the Association of American PublishersGrand Central Terminal, one of New York City's preeminent buildings, stands as a magnificent Beaux-Arts monument to America's Railway Age, and it ... Read more

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  • The Stephenson Railway Legacy

    by Colin Alexander, Alon Siton ...
    George Stephenson was born in 1781, the son of a Northumberland colliery engineman. Within a hundred years of his birth his railway legacy had opened up vast tracts of the planet, many of those routes engineered by George himself or his son Robert. Their locomotive factory at Newcastle upon Tyne soon outgrew its premises and a much larger site was founded at Darlington. The father and son are well ... Read more

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  • Panama: A Personal Record of Forty-Six Years, 1861-1907

    by Tracy Robinson ...
    "Robinson started with the Panama Railroad and saw the Canal from start to finish." -Lincoln Review (1982)"A charming chronicler of the events of a lifetime on the Isthmus." - Panama and the canal in picture and prose (1913)"Wonderfully interesting book." - The Instructor (1913)"Probably no man knows more about Panama from personal experience than Tracy Robinson." - The Independent (1908)"After ... Read more

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  • Henry Edward Huntington: Connoisseur Of Fine Books And Art

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The Huntington in San Marino, California, is one of the world's foremost collections of books, art and flora. Set in park-like grounds and a Beaux-Arts mansion built in the early 1900s, the Huntington boasts some of the rarest and most valuable artifacts on Earth from the Gutenberg Bible on vellum, the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, ... Read more

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  • Signal Boxes and Semaphores

    The Decline

    by Gordon D. Webster ...
    Mechanical signal boxes and semaphore signals are the last vestige of Victorian technology still to be found on Britain’s railways. Still surviving against all the odds in a digital era, only a few hundred ‘boxes’ remain in use out of the 10,000 originally built to control train movements across every inch of the network. Sadly, almost all of them are to be abolished within the next decade and ... Read more

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  • Iron, Stone and Steam

    Brunel's Railway Empire

    by Tim Bryan ...
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats changed the British landscape, and this new book tells the story of his awe-inspiring achievements and innovations as a railway engineer.New to the developing world of railways in the early 1830s, Brunel soon came to rival George and Robert Stephenson, as ... Read more

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  • On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Britain's rail privatisation was one of the greatest political failures of recent history. A well-functioning industry was torn apart to satisfy political dogma and privatised in a way that not only compromised safety and wrecked performance but also resulted in financial melt-down.In this acclaimed book, an update to his earlier work Broken Rails, Christian Wolmar reveals the causes of the ... Read more

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  • Looking Back At Stanier Locomotives

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    Looking Back at Stanier Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of Sir William Arthur Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the 1930s. With an extensive selection of colour photographs taken during the 1950s and 1960s, this volume covers locomotive types including Black Fives, Jubilees, Duchesses, all of Stanier’s varieties of tank ... Read more

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  • Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland

    by Michael Mather ...
    Across Scotland there are remnants of many disused railway lines, reminders of the wider network that once served a variety of locations. Some fascinating examples are to be found in eastern Scotland and, although many are now fields, footpaths, and cycle ways, others have left more tangible traces of what they once were. Using a fascinating collection of photographs, Michael Mather explores the ... Read more

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  • Crewe: The BR Blue Years

    by Michael Hitchen ...
    Crewe has long been a destination for the rail enthusiast keen to see lots of interest and continuous operation. In the era when Rail Blue dominated, it drew huge numbers with the guarantee of loco-hauled trains, close-ups of the large diesel depot and the potential to explore beyond the station to see heavy freight activity. If you were to visit on the occasion of a works open day, then the bonus ... Read more

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  • Steam Across the Regions

    A Pictorial Rail Journey Through Britain

    by David Knapman ...
    The railroad photographer presents original images from the steam era across all the former British Railways regions.As a young photographer in the 1960s, David Knapman was captivated by the drama and grandeur of steam locomotives. In this beautiful collection from his extensive body of work, he shares a thrilling journey through British Railways many lines.Originally from the Southern Region, ... Read more

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  • The Early Railways of Manchester

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    Manchester was Britain’s first railway city. The success of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 inspired many entrepreneurs and businessmen to build their own lines, not only to share in the success of the Liverpool & Manchester, but to tap into the wealth of Britain’s first industrial city. The burgeoning realisation of Manchester as a railway hub quickly saw the city joined by iron road ... Read more

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  • En mand steg af toget ...

    by Diverse Forfattere ...
    Novelleserien 'En mand steg af toget ...' blev trykt første gang i DSB's magasin Ud & Se i 2010. En stribe danske forfattere blev bedt om at skrive et bidrag, der indeholder sætningen 'en mand steg af toget ...'. Hvad, der i øvrigt sker, er helt op til forfatterne selv. E-bogen er udgivet i samarbejde mellem forfatteren, Lindhardt og Ringhof og Ud & Se.Noveller: Susanne Staun: En privat oplevelse, ... Read more

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  • Saltley Depot

    From the 1960s to Closure

    by Andrew Cole ...
    The very first depot at Saltley was opened by the Midland Railway in 1854. Due to the fast-growing levels of traffic, the depot was to prove inadequate, and it was relocated near to Lawley Street, where it remained until closure. With three massive roundhouses, Saltley was one of the largest depots in the West Midlands, servicing freight and passenger locomotives around Birmingham. With the end of ... Read more

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  • Rail Rover: Anglia Ranger

    by Adam Head ...
    East Anglia can sometimes be overlooked in favour of the larger mainlines that run through this country but, as can be seen by this exhibition of the sights found within the boundaries of an Anglia Day Ranger, it can be an interesting and often picturesque place to spend time on the rails. From the vast open areas of the Norfolk Broads on the Wherry Lines from Norwich to Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft ... Read more

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