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  • Wedding Bells at the Signal Box Cafe

    A heartwarming romantic comedy

    'Brimming with friendship and romance, this lovely book will charm your heart' Milly JohnsonFall in love with this heartwarming and emotional romcom, perfect for fans of Rebecca Raisin and Victoria Walters!Here comes the bride...Lucy Woods has always dreamed of running her very own wedding venue. After moving her eight-year-old son to the countryside she's surprised to find the perfect location ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Felix the Railway Cat

    by Kate Moore ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - AS SEEN ON THE ONE SHOW**It will make you laugh and it will make you cry: Felix The Railway Cat is the extraordinary tale of a close-knit community and its amazing bond with a very special cat.'The global sensation' Daily TelegraphWhen Felix arrived at Yorkshire's Huddersfield Train Station as an eight-week-old kitten, no one knew just how important this little ball ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unlocking The Sky

    Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

    by Seth Shulman ...
    Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freely exchanged ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition)

    A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's fascinating guide to Europe's rail network.Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Europe was originally published in 1913 and was the inspiration behind Michael Portillo's BBC television series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys'. It is divided into three sections: timetables for services covering the continent; short guides to the best places to see and to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Amtrak: Long - Long - Short . Long -

    by Bob Campbell ...
    Series series Long Long Short Long - Railway and Railroad Images
    Please stay behind the yellow line until the train comes to a complete stop. Then climb aboard and enjoy a visual trip of current Amtrak passenger travel in our section of the Northwest - plus a few other locales and liveries - through over one hundred full-color photographs, braving all kinds of weather.While the venerable toaster - I mean, P42DC power unit - predominates the railway, we still ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To the Edge of the World

    The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

    To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian railroad, the vital artery for Russian expansion that spans almost 6,000 miles and seven time zones ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The American Railway

    Its Construction, Development, Management, and Trains

    The early history of the American railroad by the man the New York Times calls one of the best-known civil engineers in America.”The American Railway provides an exciting look at the railroad industry in the 1880s and how it developed as the business boomed. Originally published in 1889, it contains a thorough history of how railroads were built, the types of railways, the lives of railway workers ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, and Muskegon Railway

    Series series Images of Rail
    This book traces the history of the electric interurban in West Michigan, telling the story of the growth, operation, and demise of an electric railway.The Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon (GREG H&M) Railway was part of a network of electric railroads that spread across southern Michigan in the early part of the 20th century. For nearly 30 years, the railway connected Grand Rapids with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Full Steam Ahead, Felix

    Adventures of a famous station cat and her kitten apprentice

    by Kate Moore ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'FULL OF FUNNY AND HEART-WARMING STORIES' Sunday ExpressThe charming sequel to Felix the Railway Cat, with more exciting adventures from his life on and off duty at Huddersfield Railway Station.Felix, Senior Pest Controller at Huddersfield station, has been at the heart of a close-knit community since the day she arrived as a kitten.But now, having risen ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Amtrak in the Heartland

    by Craig Sanders ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    "Craig Sanders has done an excellent job of research . . . his treatment is as comprehensive as anyone could reasonably wish for, and solidly based. In addition, he succeeds in making it all clear as well as any human can. He also manages to inject enough humor and human interest to keep the reader moving." —Herbert H. Harwood, author of The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story and Invisible Giants: ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wallace W. Abbey

    A Life in Railroad Photography

    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    With over 175 images, this volume profiles the life and work of the legendary railroad photographer and the transformation of transportation after WWII.From the late 1940s onward, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday transportation moments into magical photographs. Through these images, Abbey helped people understand and appreciate what was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Union Pacific: America's Largest Railroad

    by Eugene Weiser ...
    The Union Pacific is the largest and the most powerful railroad in the country. The railroad has been in service since 1862, some 151 years. The Union Pacific is older than any other American Class I railroad today with the Kansas City Southern coming in at second at 116 years. In that time the railroad has become not only one of the most highly respected institutions in the nation but also has ... Read more

    $2.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914

    Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan

    by Dan Free ...
    Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.The importance of early railways in the industrialization of the United States and Europe is a fact all of us are familiar with. To witness the amazing parallel development of the railways in Japan, happening at much the same time as America was connecting its vast hinterland ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Story of American Railroads

    From the Iron Horse to the Diesel Locomotive

    This richly comprehensive history by a self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian features more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints of America's railway system. Stewart H. Holbrook presents a dramatic, highly readable chronicle of the development of the backbone of the country's commerce and industry. Abounding in episodes of ingenuity and achievement, the growth of the railway system required ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trans-Europe Express

    Tours of a Lost Continent

    **'A scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today' Owen JonesA searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities**Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Baldwin Locomotives

    by Brian Solomon ...
    Philadelphia-based Baldwin began designing and building steam locomotives in the 1830s and gave the U.S. many of its most significant and famous types of steam, and diesel-electric motive power. This history of Baldwin is illustrated with a large selection of rare, superb builder's photos and other publicity images from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, with the book's large page size ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

    Series series Images of Rail
    The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas�s economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood, Iron, and Gold

    How the Railways Transformed the World

    The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel

    by Robin Jones ...
    **A biography of the nineteenth-century Englishman who was “**one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history” (Nature).Civil and mechanical engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s accomplishments were extraordinary—involving the Great Western Railway, the SS Great Britain, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, prefabricated hospital buildings for use during the Crimean War, and more. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sacramento's Southern Pacific Shops

    Series series Images of Rail
    In 1862, the Central Pacific Railroad was founded and began building eastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad. This required a shop capable of keeping the railroad�s equipment in running order. So in 1867, in the swamps just north of town, the Sacramento shops were born. For well more than a century, this massive complex kept the Central Pacific and its corporate successor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steam & Cinders

    The Advent of Railroads in Wisconsin

    Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil War. Featuring more than 75 period photographs, historic maps, and drawings, Steam and Cinders preserves ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Eastern Kentucky Railway

    Series series Images of Rail
    In 1865, as the Civil War was drawing to a close, plans were underway in Boston for a railroad construction project to begin in Greenup County, Kentucky. Eventually the Eastern Kentucky Railway Company would extend its main track through two more counties, Carter and Lawrence. Spanning just 36 miles of main track from Riverton to Webbville, theEastern Kentucky Railway became a lifeline for the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trains Now Departed

    Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways

    SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to…well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Targeted Tracks

    The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861–1865

    “Anyone who is interested in Civil War logistics, wartime railroads, and the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania needs to read this study.” —Eric J. Wittenberg, award-winning historian and authorThe Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. Although much has been written about their role in general, little has been written about specific lines. The Cumberland Valley ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus