Michigan Railway Company
Norman L. Krentel
This first comprehensive history of the Michigan United Railway Company traces the rise and fall of Michigan’s most significant electric railway. This volume covers the company’s founding in local rail-based public transportation systems in Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, and Owosso-Corunna and ends with its eventual demise.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781611864984
- Publication Date: Dec 2024
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Life along the Tracks
Mike McLaughlin
Destined for a life along the tracks, Mike McLaughlin's career spanned jobs from gandy to consultant at multiple railroads and firms. His gritty personal accounts focus on what happened behind the scenes on maintenance and signal gangs, in bunk cars, as a traffic manager, and more. Photographs maps, and documents enhance the text.
- Imprint: Basalt Books
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781638640301
- Publication Date: Oct 2024
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Alabama Railroads
Wayne Cline
The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780817361679
- Publication Date: May 2024
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New Research on Railway Engineering and Transportation
Ali G. Hessami
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781837686193
- Publication Date: Jan 2024
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Backwoods Railroads of Western Oregon
D. C. Jesse Burkhardt
Perfect for railroad fans, this 12-month calendar is filled with exceptional train images borrowed from Backwoods Railroads, Burkhardt's unique photojournalistic account focusing on lines in Oregon's Willamette Valley and its bordering mountain chains.
- Format: Calendar
- ISBN: 9780874224269
- Publication Date: Sep 2023
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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey
M. John Lubetkin
Encompassing the saga of transcontinental railroading, cultural conflict on the northern plains, and an array of important Indian and Anglo-American characters, Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey will fascinate Custer fans and anyone interested in the history of the American West.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780806192154
- Publication Date: Feb 2023
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Last Train to Auschwitz
Sarah Federman
During World War II, the French National Railways Corporation (SNCF) deported 75,000 people to Nazi death camps. Last Train to Auschwitz delves into the many roles of the French railways during the Holocaust. Poignant stories of survivors mixed with contemporary legal debates illuminate a company’s amends for human rights violations.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780299331740
- Publication Date: Jun 2022
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Backwoods Railroads
D.C. Jesse Burkhardt
Originally published in 1994, and now updated with new content and additional images, Backwoods Railroads is an engaging description of western Oregon's evolving contemporary branchline and shortline railroad operations. Burkhardt's unique photojournalistic account focuses on the Willamette Valley and its bordering mountain chains--the Coast Range, the Cascades, and the Siskiyous--capturing a sense of the state's rural, small-town character and heritage.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780874224092
- Publication Date: May 2022
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Seattle's Streetcar Era
Mike Bergman
Seattle's first street railway opened in 1884, with two horses per streetcar. By 1899 ten companies operated trolleys and cable in the city--and hillside properties became prized building lots. A decade later, all but one was run by Seattle Electric Company, and their 103 million passenger ridership was equivalent to every Seattleite boarding a streetcar 435 times a year. Seattle voters approved municipal ownership in 1918, and the mayor issued bonds to fund the $15 million purchase. Bus routes and several line extensions followed, but the debt load and the Great Depression forced the system into disrepair, and the Seattle Municipal Railway converted to trolley and motor buses. Author Mike Bergman worked as a transit planner for Sound Transit and King County Metro Transit for more than 35 years. Through narrative, maps, and previously unpublished photographs, he delivers a detailed jaunt through Seattle's fascinating streetcar era.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780874224078
- Publication Date: Nov 2021
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Overhaul
Richard Flint
In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which were the driving force behind the city's economy for more than seventy years.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780826362490
- Publication Date: Apr 2021
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Buried Dreams
Andrew R. Black
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780807173572
- Publication Date: Oct 2020
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Pere Marquette
Graydon M. Meints
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781611863659
- Publication Date: Jul 2020
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Rock Island Requiem
Gregory L. Schneider
Chronicles the unraveling and demise of the mighty Rock Island Railroad--the largest railroad liquidation in American history. Victim of government regulation, inept management, individual greed, and self-interest, its downfall presents in microcosm the story of the railroad industry's larger problems in postwar America--and in relief, the story of America's economic failures in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780700629626
- Publication Date: Feb 2020
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Rocky's Rail
John E. Langlot
Rocky's Rail recounts Great Northern brakeman and conductor John Langlot's railroading experiences from 1960 through 2004, a period of sweeping technological change. His stories provide a rare first-person view of the craft of trainman. He also summarizes corporate-level decisions and their local impacts. In addition, the book offers a geographically arranged history of the Great Northern Railway's Spokane Division in the 1960s.
- Imprint: Yakt Publishing
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781735174105
- Publication Date: Jan 2020
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Burlington Northern
Earl J. Currie
Burlington Northern (BN) formed from the merger of four railways. Success required complex planning and implementation programs. Then the electric-power industry summoned BN to transport immense amounts of low-sulfur coal, and railroading as an adventure began for thousands hired to improve or increase the railroad's capacity, lines, tracks, and fleet size. Soon, BN's lines handled the highest tonnages of any railroad line in the world, past or present. This, the first in a two-volume series, covers this important decade.
- Imprint: Rails Northwest
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780996122566
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Transformation of a Railroad Company
Earl J. Currie
During the 1980s, three major events--a Frisco Railroad merger, leadership changes, and deregulation--improved Burlington Northern's railway earnings and radically transformed corporate objectives, standards, work methods, and technology. This volume explores initiatives and strategies BN employed to reach the era's ambitious goals, as well as the cost of such profound change.
- Imprint: Rails Northwest
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780996122580
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Wheat Country Railroad
Philip F. Beach
Vying for economic supremacy on the Palouse, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Union Pacific, and Northern Pacific Railroad laid rail, invested capital, speculated, and built a remarkable infrastructure that included the Columbia and Palouse Railroad and the competing Spokane & Palouse Railway. Their intense rivalry played a critical role in eastern Washington and northwest Idaho's agricultural and population growth. Based on internal railroad correspondence and documents, and contemporary publications and newspapers, Wheat Country Railroad offers the most comprehensive and detailed study ever compiled of the area's late 19th and early 20th century railroading.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780874223613
- Publication Date: Dec 2018
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The Fishing Line
Graydon M. Meints
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781611863000
- Publication Date: Sep 2018
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Santa Fe
Robert Strein
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.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780826359698
- Publication Date: Nov 2017
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Innovative Applications of Big Data in the Railway Industry
Shruti Kohli
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781522531760
- Publication Date: Nov 2017
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