Merging Lines

Richard Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• Why did American railroads decline at the turn of the 20th century into the near-death experience of the 1970s? And why did many railroad mergers in t... Lees meer

Main Lines

Richard Saunders

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• Rising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest railroad filed for bankruptcy, American railroads are once again a maj... Lees meer

Southern Railroad Man

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• Nimrod J. Bell worked as a conductor for several southern railroads in their formative period, from 1857 to 1894. After his career was cut short by an... Lees meer

Follow the Flag

H Roger Grant

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the... Lees meer

Louisiana and Arkansas Railway

James R Fair

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, known as "The Better Way," ran its first trains at the turn of the century and expanded over the years to connect Ne... Lees meer

The North Western

H Roger Grant

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• Leading railroad historian H. Roger Grant tells the story of the Chicago & North Western Railway from 1848, when the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad r... Lees meer

The Corn Belt Route

H Roger Grant

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built... Lees meer

Brownie the Boomer

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• Charles P. Brown--"a boomer railroad man"--offers in this exceptional autobiography an unusually vivid portrayal of everyday life as a trainman for so... Lees meer

We Took the Train

• Hardcover | Engels | Railroads in America
• In this illustrated collection, H. Roger Grant, one of America's leading railroad historians, brings together a rich assortment of personal accounts o... Lees meer