The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
S.C. Griggs & Co., 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. 258 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in brown cloth covers with lettering in black. Edge and corner wear. No dust jacket.
Railroads
Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives During the Fist Session of the Thirty-Third Congress: Report to the Secretary of War Communicating the Several Pacific Railroad Explorations. Ex. Doc No. 129. Vol. I: Examination by Captain A. A. Humphreys, Topographical Engineers, of the reports of the explorations to determine the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean. II. Memoranda by Captain George B. McClellan, Corps of Engineers, upon some practical points connected with the construction and workings of railroads. III. Letter of Major General Jesup, Quartermaster General U.S.A., upon the cost of transporting troops and supplies to California, Oregon, New Mexico, &c. IV. Report of Governor I. I. Stevens upon the route near the 47th parallel.
Printed by A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854. Hardcover. 24, 43, 117. 4, xii, [2], 589, xv pp. Spine title: Executive Documents 1st Sess., 33r Congress, Vol. 18, PT.1 1853-54 Committee Room No. 13, Doc. No. 129, P'YT 1. Howes H-791 Very good copy in full leather covers, spine with 5-raised.....
Overhaul: A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops
University of New Mexico Press, April 2021. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 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. In the course.....
The Milwaukee Road: Super Dome 'Hiawathas' and Western 'Cities' 'Domeliners.' Condensed Train Schedules. September 24, 1961
The Milwaukee Road, 1961. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet folded into quarters, 4 x 9 inches when folded. Map of routes on rear panel. Train schedules on inner panels. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Nothing Like It In The World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Simon & Schuster, August 2000. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed "Undaunted Courage, " which recounted the explorations of the West by.....
California Fast Freight Line (received from Corbett & Failing, New York, shipped to L. H. Wakefield, San Francisco) (bill of lading)
California Fast Freight Line, 1877-1880. Ephemera. Bill of lading, oblong format, 8.5 x 14 inches, printed in black on white. Shipping was completed 'via Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. Rds. in connection with Union & Central Pacific R. Rds.' The California.....
The Columbia River Empire: A Land of Promise for the Homeseeker and Homemaker. 'Where Rolls the Oregon'. Cover title: 'Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Their Resources.'
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, 1902. Trade Paperback. 72 pages. Numerous B/W photographic illustrations. 1902 edition. Very good in illustrated red wrappers. Waterstained page edges with edges browned. Covers separated from contents.
Ninth Annual Report of the Great Northern Railway Company. Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1898
Great Northern Railway Company, 1898. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 34 pages, with folding map at rear, 17.3 x 32.5 inches, 'Great Northern Railway and Proprietary Lines,' printed in black on white with routes in red and green. State boundaries outlined in orange. Routes originate from Deluth and St.Paul extending westward.....
Sketches of California. Issued in the Interest of the Phillips-Rock Island Tourist Excursions. (cover title: 'Spanning the Continent by the Phillips Rock Island')
A. Phillips & Co. Printed by the J. M. W. Jones Stationery and Printing Co., ca. 1893. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. 5 full-page B/W illustrations. Essay by E. W. Maslin, 'What Can Be Done in California.' and 'The Sugar Beet in California,' by Richard Gird. Other essays, 'What.....
The Central Pacific R. R. Debt: California's Remonstrance Against Refunding It
(n.p.), 1896. First Edition. Pamphlet. 29 pages. The City of San Francisco created the Committee of Fifty 'appointed at the monster meeting at Metropolitan Temple, December 7th, 1895. Adolph Sutro, Mayor San Francisco, Chairman.' to oppose the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad's proposal to refinance its debt to the.....
Bonanza Railraods
Stanford University Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 148 pages. B/W photopgraphs. The stories of the smaller railroads of California and Nevada working in the Sierras. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket with tanning to spine edge.
The Milwaukee Road. Condensed Train Schedule. September 24, 1961
The Milwauke Road, 1961. Trade Paperback. Single sheet 9 x 16 inches, trifolded to 4 x 9 inches. A near fine copy.
Railroads of America
Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1949. Hardcover.
Railroad Ephemera
Ephemera.
A Memorial Against Refunding the Claim of the United States upon the Central Pacific Railroad Company for $77,000,000 [cover title]
(n.p.), (n.d. but 1894). First Edition. Pamphlet. 13 pages. A letter to the US Congress inspired by 'a unanimous vote of a mass meeting of the citizens of San Francisco. held on May 25th, 1894,' protesting the refinancing of the Central Pacific Railroad's debt. The Central Pacific was built and.....
Atlas of the world's railways
Everest House, January 1980. Hardcover.
The Diesel Electric Locomotive Dictionary for the locomotive fireman and engineer
Diesel Dictionary, 1950. Unknown. 193 pages plus about 50 additional pages of symbols for schematic wiring and general information. Second edition. A near fine copy in red printed wrappers (paperback). Former woner name on front cover.
Early Call for the Perishables: A Day at the Throttle
May-Murdock Publications, 1985. Unknown. 21 pages with 2 pages of additional May-Murdock publications and 1 page brief bio. of author. Second printing. Very good copy in tan illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Great Rock Island Route, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Rys. 1889-9. West, Northwest and Southwest via Chicago to All Towns, Cities and Localities...Revised edition
Great Rock Island Route, 1888. Trade Paperback. Single sheet, oblong format, 41 x 10 inches, folded into 20 panels, 10 x 4.2 inches when folded. The individual panels are organized by state and provide promotional information on the state and its pricipal town, cities and attractions. The opposite side is.....
Southern Pacific Company Western Division Timetable 273, Effective Sunday, September 25, 1960
Southern Pacific Company, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. 'Map of the Western Division Southern Pacific Company' on rear cover page. First edition (first printing). Very good in cream printed wrappers (paperback).
Interurban Electric Railway Company: Supplement No. 1 to Time Table No. 1 Superseding Pages 24, 25, 26 and 27, to Take Effect Sunday, February 12, 1939. with Interurban Electric Railway Company Time Table 3 to Take Effect Monday, February 26, 1940 (2 separate items)
Interurban Electric Railway Company, 1939, 1940. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Supplement No. 1 to Time Table No. 1: 8 pp. with 'Map of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley Electric Lines' and insert 'San Francisco' on last page, dated January, 1939. Time Table 3: 32 pp. with same map, dated January, 1939.....
Southern Pacific Company Air Brake Rules and Regulations
Southern Pacific Company, 1939. Trade Paperback.
Record Breaking Run of the Scott Special: Los Angeles to chicago 44 Hours & 45 Minutes
Santa Fe Railroad. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated. Reprint edition. B/W illustrations and map of the route taken. Reprint edition. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
The Complete Book of Locomotives
Hermes House, January 2000. Trade Paperback.
The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
Viking Adult, May 2004. Hardcover. In the summer of 2000, David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of Americaas past. From Omaha to San Francisco, Bain and his family retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad. Following abandoned railroad.....