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North American Railroading
The first comprehensive encyclopedic guide to the story of railroading over a 150year period, in the United States and Canada.
Index.
b & w photos & illustrations throughout.

book : hardcover, dustjacket


1981
1984.033.001 Library HE 2751.H8

Railroads Across America: A Celebration of 150 Years of Railroading.
colour and b&w illus.,
book : hardcover


1998
2006.018.001 Library
More Info Rainbow of Traction, A
CERA Bulletin #126. The 3rd of 3 full-color volumes that illustrate the development of electric railways. Cover interurban railway, rapid transit lines, switching and main line railroad electrifications in North America all in color photographs taken between 1939 and 1964.
book : hardcover, dust jacket in plastic cover


1988
2007.034.024 Library
More Info Railroads of the Black Hills
A collectors album of a vanishing era in railroading. Stories of trainrobbers fires, runaway trains and wrecks, stories about engines and men on the narrow gauge pike.
b&w photos
book : hardcover, dustcover


1964
2007.034.038 Library 64-21320
More Info Laurel Line, An Anthracite Region Railway
Interurban Special 103.
About a railway(Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad) unusual in several respects. Built to higher standards for electric short-line railroads, operated mostly with a 3rd rail system, ran exculsively on private rights-of-way, served a geographically narrow region with one main industry . .. coal. Based largely on corporate records.
b&w photographs, roster of equipment, bibliography, notes on sources, index, maps.
book : hardcover, dustjacket in plastic cover


1985
2007.034.041 Library TF725.L33.H46
More Info Interurban Electric Locomotives, From Baldwin-Westinghouse
Attempts to answer questions about electric interurban railways-- what they were, why they were built, what level of technology did they represent, how they were used, what the geographical distribution in North America was, why they disappeared (except for one lonely example in north-central Iowa). Emphasis is on the locomotives.
b&w photographs, roster of equipment.
book : softcover


2001
2007.034.171 Library
More Info High Iron, A Book of Trains
A collection of photographs that have value for their historical associations or some gratuitous esthetic appeal for railroad amaterus and enthusiasts plus a chronicle of some the trains, locomotives and aspects of railroad history that interested the author.
Printed in 1943.
b&w photographs, reproductions, an index of car heralds, devices and insignia of the principal railroads of North America, glossary, bibliography, index of illustrations.
book : hardcover


1938
2008.013.001 Rare & Fragile Books

Unification Agreement and Constitution - United Transportation Union
Booklet of the Unification Agreement of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,and Switchmen's Union of North America. Cover paper, green in colour, staple-bound
textual record : booklet


Unknown
2011.038.002 PF.0193.0068
More Info Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RR
Hawkins, Wisconsin a small rural railroad station sound recordings
audio record : vinyl


2009.004.010 Archive Storage

Vis Major - Railroad Men, an Act of God - White Death at Wellington
Fictional account of the Wellington Slide, North America's worst avalanche disaster, from the perspective of the railroad men who battled the week-long blizzard leading up to the tragedy. At 1:43 AM, March 1, 1910, a wall of snow descended on two Great Northern Railway trains stalled in the town of Wellington, Washington.
book : softcover


2009
2011.024.001 Reference Library
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