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Transcontinental
Railroad & Photography Books In Print:
Also Posters, Railroad Video's, Childrens' Books, Computer Software/Games, Music
Bookstore:
Book
of the Month Club Main Selection:
David
Haward Bain/ Hardcover / Published 1999 / $24.47 [Used
copies are an incredible bargain!]
David
Bain's meticulously researched and highly detailed
Empire
Express is the best modern history of the first transcontinental railroad
— highly recommended.
Waiting for the Cars: Alfred A. Hart's Stereoscopic Views of the Central Pacific Railroad
Howard Goldbaum & Wendell W. Huffman / Published 2012 / Gorgeous stereoview reproductions
Riding
the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad
1865-1881
Compiled
and Edited by Bruce C. Cooper / with content from
the CPRR Museum / Published 2004 /
$21.80
The
Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist
Mead B. Kibbey, Peter Palmquist (Editor) / Hardcover
/ Published 1996 / $75.00
Also available from the California
State Library Foundation
The
Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
David
Haward Bain / Hardcover / Published 2004 / $23.77 / NY
Times Review
Central Pacific Railroad
Across Nevada, 1868 & 1997: Photographic Comparatives
Lawrence
K. Hersh / Hardcover / Published April, 2000 / $39.95
The
First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific
John Debo Galloway / Hardcover / Published 1981
/ $38.95
The
Trans-Continental
1870 Train Newspaper / 12 issue reprint by Timothy
Hughes / Paperback / Published 1981 / $2.00
The
Savage View: Charles Savage, Pioneer Mormon Photographer
Bradley
W. Richards, M.D., Jean Chapman (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1998
/
$29.95
American
Railroads of the Nineteenth Century: A Pictorial History in Victorian
Wood
Engravings
Jim
Harter / Hardcover / Published 1999 / $31.50
Measuring
America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and
Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
(Explains the origin of America's wealth, our unique
late 18th century innovation of owning the land, and the pervasive
impact of the prerequisite surveying.)
Andro
Linklater / Hardcover / Published 2002 / $18.20
Held
for Orders
(Best Railroading Short Stories.)
Frank
H. Spearman / Hardcover Reprint / Originally Published c. 1900 / $24.95
(But see Special
Offers!)
Ogden
Anecdotes: Stories and Photos from Our First 50 Years
Irene Woodhouse / Republished
2004 / $20.50 / Sample Chapter 
Sunset
Limited : The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the
American West, 1850-1930
Richard J. Orsi
/ Published 2005 / $19.77 / LA
Times Review
Soldier
Artist Of The Great Reconnaissance: John C. Tidball and the 35th
Parallel Pacific Railroad Survey
Eugene C. Tidball
/ Published 2004 / $39.95
The
Barker Collection
Their Man in Omaha (Two volumes of UPRR Letters
1866-1871)
Del Weber, Barry Combs and Don Snoddy (Editors)
/ Vol. 1 Published 2005 / Excerpt
Workin'
on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steam
Richard Reinhardt (Editor) / Paperback / Published
1970 / $13.97
A
Conductor Tells... Unauthorized Train Stories
Ken
Lothridge / Hardcover / Published
2003 / $28.98
A
Great & Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad
John Hoyt Williams / Paperback / Published 1996
/ $14.00
#1 New York Times Bestseller
List:
Read
the corrected paperback edition, not the hardcover first edition.
Nothing
Like It in the World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad
1863
- 1869
Stephen
E. Ambrose / Paperback / 432 pages / Corrected November 6, 2001 /
$10.88/
Description
Two
Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion: The Experiences of Frank J.
North and Luther H. North, Pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882, and
Their Defence of the Building of the Union Pacific Railroad
George Bird Grinnell / Softcover reprint /
Published 1928 / $12.00
Railroad
Vision: Photography, Travel, and Perception
Anne M. Lyden / Hardcover / Published 2003
/ $34.97 / Getty
Museum
John
Carbutt on the Frontiers of Photography
William Brey / Paperback / Published 1985 /
$19.95
Across
the Plains [Book also available on CD-ROM]
Robert
Louis Stevenson / Paperback / Published 1997 / $12.50 / Author's 1879
transcontinental
RR trip
USA
by Rail
John
Pitt / Travel Paperback / Published 2012 / $18.46
Western
Train Adventures: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Mark
McLaughlin
/ Paperback / Published 2002 / $18.95
The
World of Stereographs
William
C. Darrah / Paperback / Published 1998 / $21.95
Stereo
Views: An Illustrated History and Price Guide
John Waldsmith / Paperback / Published 1991
/ $18.36
Stereoscopes:
The First One Hundred Years
Paul Wing / Hardcover / Published 1996 / $74.95
Stereoscopes:
The First One Hundred Years
Paul Wing / Paperback / Published 1996 / $49.95
Print
the Legend:
Photography and the American West
Martha
A. Sandweiss / Hardcover / Published 2002 / $27.97 / Description
Collector's
Guide to Early Photographs
O.
Henry MacE / Paperback / Published 1999 / $15.96
Place
Names of the Sierra Nevada : From Abbot to Zumwalt
Peter
Browning / Paperback / Published 1991 / $15.96
Army
Exploration in the American West 1803-1863 (Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore,Texas
History Reprint Series)
William H. Goetzmann / Paperback / Published
1991 / $19.95
America's
First Transcontinental Railway: A Pictorial History of the Pacific
Railroad
Raymond Cushing / Paperback / Published 1994
/ $10.80
American
Locomotives in Historic Photographs : 1858 to 1949
Ron
Ziel / Paperback / Published 1993 / $11.16
Railroad
to the Pacific
Edwin Johnson / Hardcover / Published 1982
/ $19.95
The
Great Iron Link: The Building of the Central Pacific Railroad (Great
Projects)
Rosemary Laughlin / Hardcover / Published
1996 / $18.95
The
Credit Mobilier of America: Its Origin and History, Its Work of Constructing
the Union Pacific Railroad and the Relation of Members of Congress
Jay Boyd Crawford / Hardcover / Published 1980
/ $37.50
Donner
Pass: Southern Pacific's Sierra Crossing
John R. Signor / Hardcover / Published 1985
/ $57.95
History
of the Union Pacific Railway (Library of Early American Business & Industry,
35)
Henry K. White / Hardcover / Published 1973
/ $29.50
Union
Pacific Business Cars 1870-1991: Including Inspection and Instruction
Cars
Ralph L. Barger / Hardcover / 1998 / $49.95
Union
Pacific: Salt Lake Route
Mark
W. Hemphill / Hardcover / Published 1995 / $60.00
The
Transcontinental Railroad (Building History Series)
Thomas Streissguth / Hardcover / Published
1999 / $23.70
Transcontinental
Railroad: A Thematic Unit
Keith Vasconcelles(Illustrator), Mary Ellen
Sterling / Paperback / Published 1993 / $7.96
Iron
Horses Across America: The Transcontinental Railroad (Perspectives
on History
Series)
Jeanne M. Bracken(Editor) / Paperback / Published
1995 / $6.95
Transcontinental
Railroad Four Hundred Rails to Miles
Hardcover / Published 1987 / $37.50
Transcontinental
Railroad Legislation, 1835-1862 (Railroads)
Thamar E. Dufwa, Stuart Bruchey (Editor) /
Hardcover / Published 1981 / $20.95
Washakie:
An Account of Indian Resistance of the Covered Wagon and Union Pacific
Railroad
Invasion of Their Territory
Grace Hebard / Hardcover / Published 1911 /
$57.75
Cloud-Climbing
Railroad: : Highest Point on the Southern Pacific
Dorothy Neal / Paperback / Published 1998 /
$15.00
Railroads
in the Nineteenth Century (Encyclopedia of American Business History
and
Biography)
Robert L. Fay(Editor) / Hardcover / Published
1988 / $99.00
Transcontinental
Railroad Legislation, 1835-1862 (Railroads)
Thamar E. Dufwa, Stuart Bruchey (Editor) /
Hardcover / Published 1981 / $20.95
R.
Bruce Cynar / Published 2003 / $35.00
Union Pacific
Graham Wilmott
Buy Trains Art Prints At AllPosters.com
Union Pacific Big Boy
Tucker Smith
Buy Trains Art Prints At AllPosters.com
— (Sorry, No longer available)
Southern Pacific
Advertisement
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More Posters and Art Prints
Television and
Motion Picture Videotapes:
New! American
Experience: Transcontinental Railroad
Video 
/
Published 2003 / $20.99 / PBS
Website
Modern
Marvels - The Transcontinental Railroad
Video
/ Published 1994 / $16.99 / see
History Channel Description; A&E
Description
The
Iron Road - The American Experience
Video
/ Published 1990 / $16.99 / see
PBS Video Description / Teachers'
Guide / another
Description / Contents
Modern
Marvels - The Railroads That Tamed The West
Video
/ $19.95
Building
of the Transcontinental Rail
Peanuts
Cartoon / Video
/ Published 1989 / $9.95
The
West (Box Set of Videotapes)
Ken
Burns / Video
/ Published 1996 / $127.48 / see
PBS Website for "The West"
The
Way West (Four Episode Videotape Set)
Ric
Burns / Video
/ Published 1995 / $59.49 / see
Description of "The Way West"
Union
Pacific
Cecil
B. DeMille / Entertainment
/ Video
/ Published 1939 / $13.99
American's
Railroads: The Steam Train Legacy
Seven
Videotapes / $33.99 / see
PBS Video Description
Jupiter
& No. 119 - Recreating the locomotives of the Golden Spike
Golden Spike
Videotape / $20.00
Trains
Unlimited
Four History Channel
Videotapes / $39.95
California
and the Dream Seekers
Two
Videotapes / $39.95 / see the A&E
Classroom Guide's Description
Arts & Entertainment - Link to more Railroad Videotapes
Transcontinental (1865 - 1880)
Steam
Over Donner Pass
Video
/ $24.95
Cab
Ride Over Donner Pass
Video
/ $54.95
Roseville
to Truckee
Video
/ $24.95
Winter
Rails Over Donner Pass
Video
/ $29.95
Across
Donner Summit
Video
/ $39.95
This
is My Railroad - Southern Pacific Steam Version 1947
Video
/ $39.95
Flangers,
Spreaders, & Steam Rotary Snowplows
Volume
II of the Southern Pacific Film Archives
Video
/ $10.00
Southern
Pacific 1941
Video
/ $10.00
The
Battle For Donner Pass
Video
/ $10.00
Last
Run of a Cab Forward over Donner Pass
Video
/ $10.00
Snow
on the Run
Video
/ Produced by SPRR / 1952 / $10.00
Love
Those Trains
Follows freight train "Salad Bowl Express" on the Overland Route; snowfighting
on Donner Pass.
Video
/ 1984 / $19.98
Audio CD:
Track
Talk On-Board
Rail
sounds Audio CD / $14.95
Books for Children and Young Adults:
Ten
Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
Mary
Ann Fraser / Paperback / Children's Book - Ages 9-12 / Published 1996
/ $5.56
Across
America on an Emigrant Train
Jim
Murphy / Hardcover / Ages 9-12 / Published 1993 / $11.90
Dragon's
Gate (Newbery Award Winner about a 15 year old Chinese boy who
becomes a CPRR worker)
Laurence
Yep / Paperback / Young Adult / Published 1995 / $4.76 / Description
The
Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker (My Name
Is
America)
William
Durbin / Hardcover / Ages 9-12 / Published 1999 / $7.67 / Review
Promontory
— [Utah History] — Utah Public Television Documentary
Video / $19.95 /
Description
The
Last Rail (Odyssey (Smithsonian Institution).)
Darice Bailer, et al / Paperback / Ages 9-12
/ Published 1996 / $4.76 
The
Last Rail: The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad (Smithsonian
Odyssey)
Darice Bailer, Bill Farnsworth (Illustrator)
/ Hardcover / Ages 9-12 / Published 1996 / $14.95
The
Transcontinental Railroad (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Peter Anderson / School & Library Binding
/ Ages 9-12 / Published 1996 / $20.00
The
Transcontinental Railroad (Cornerstones of Freedom)
Peter Anderson / Paperback / Ages 9-12 / Published
1996 / $4.76
The
Transcontinental Railroad in American History (In American History)
R.
Conrad Stein / Library Binding / Ages 9-12 / Published 1997 / $19.95
The
Transcontinental Railroad; Triumph of a Dream
Dan Elish / Hardcover / Ages 9-12 / Published
1993 / $21.90
The
Transcontinental Railroad: America at Its Best?
Robert Young / Library Binding / Ages 9-12
/ Published 1996 / $18.95
Iron
Horses (Picture Books)
Verla
Kay, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator) / School & Library Binding / Ages
4-8 / 1999 / $11.19
Full
Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad
Rhoda
Blumberg, Rhonda Blumberg / Hardcover / Young Adult / Published 1996 /
$13.27
Railroad
Tycoon II Gold for Windows
Railroad
Tycoon II Gold for Macintosh
CD-ROM
software / railroad building simulation game / $19.99
Railroad
Tycoon II Gold for Sega Dreamcast
Videogame / railroad building simulation game / $44.99
Microsoft
Train Simulator
Windows
software / $29.99
Shap
Luk Kon Tseung Kwan
P. Steve Neeley / Shareware Software Computer
Game / relating to the Chinese railroad workers.
Music:
Railroad
Songs and Music from Native Ground Music
Western
Railroad Songs (American History Through Folksong)
Rusty
McNeil / Audio CD / $26.95 / Description
& MP3 samples
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