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Looking Back at Riddles & Ivatt Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of both Robin Riddles CBE and Henry George Ivatt. With 190 colour photographs, the book covers all of their British Railways Standard designs, the Austerities and Class J94s, as well as Ivatt’s own designs...

This book uses Watercolour paintings to illustrate all 157 types of steam locomotives used on State Government Railways around Australia during the years 1855 to 1895 including details of all goods, passenger and shunting locomotives in service. The name of their builder and where they were built, their...

Santa Fe: The Chief Way is a fresh and nostalgic look at the streamliners of the Santa Fe railroad from the late thirties to the early seventies. Historic photographs, promotional posters, and art capture the charm of traveling by rail throughout the Southwest on classics such as the Super Chief,...

The great arched train sheds of Victorian Britain are often seen as the nineteenth-century equivalent of medieval cathedrals: once specific railway buildings became necessary around 1830 British architects seized the opportunity with both hands, designing some of the great buildings of their age....

This book takes an in-depth look at the small independent railway that was financed and built by the good citizens of Halstead and its surrounding villages in Essex. The CV&HR came into being in 1860 but struggled financially for a number of years before being put into receivership. However, in...

The name Orient Express means different things to different people. For some it is the ultimate in elegance and refined travel, a glamorous way to voyage, exclusive only to the very wealthy. To others the train represents an almost mythical way to adventure and retrace the steps of spies, diplomats...

If you love trains and train stories, you will adore this collection of vintage railway tales. Beautiful artwork and stunning images create one book that will entertain your favorite train lover -- young or old. If it's trains you like to see, then you can't go wrong with these two stories from days...

This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly).   Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania...

The Atlantic & Great Western Railroad was one of the earliest and largest east-west railroad projects in the United States. It was the dream of American builders William Reynolds of Pennsylvania and Marvin Kent of Ohio. By using the non-standard six-foot gauge, these men helped construct a trunk...

Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture and a port containing a naval air station, shipbuilding center, and the winter home of the long-gone Alaska Packers fleet of �tall ships.� But Alameda also was...

Alliance has been a railroad center ever since the Burlington Railroad established the city in 1888 while pushing tracks into the vast, open regions of Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana. As a hub for trains carrying a variety of agricultural and mining products to market, Alliance...

Throughout history, Americans have embraced technology with a special enthusiasm, and the innovation of the trolley car is no exception. This industry fueled the growth of many towns and cities in Connecticut, and Western Connecticut was able to keep pace with other parts of the state because of it....

In the 1950s and 1960s south Lancashire and Cheshire was criss-crossed by a web of railway lines, servicing the various needs of local industries. The region was a haven for railway enthusiasts who pursued the hundreds of steam workhorses based at British Railways depots in "chemical towns"...

Nashville's 150-year public transportation heritage is a rich and colorful one that began in 1866 when two private companies, the McGavock and Mount Vernon Horse Railroad Company and the South Nashville Street Railroad Company, commenced operation. The first cars were mule powered. During the 1880s,...