Category: Trains and Railroads

Canadian Trackside Guide 1998

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Bytown Railway Society : January 1998

Seller ID: 73153

ISBN: B001SU97FK

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading (Masters of Railroad Photography)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Boston Mills Press : December 1999

Seller ID: 84362

ISBN-13: 9781550462739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Boston Mills Press is proud to launch its Masters of Railroad Photography Series with this phenomenal collection of photographs and essays by Ted Benson. Benson has devoted much of the past 30 years to rail photojournalism and is widely acknowledged as one of the world's top railway photographers. In One Track Mind he presents more than 200 of his finest black-and-white photographs on the topic of western railroading. Benson's photographs speak to the railfan in all of us, with equal measures of timeless human interest and peak-action railroad imagery. Ted Benson has perhaps exceeded his own ...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : August 2000

Seller ID: 74404

ISBN-13: 9780684846095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

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 Lewis and Clark. "Nothing Like It in the World" is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the oth...
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An Historical Guide to Canadian Pacific Railway Stations in British Columbia

By: Baird, Ian

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Heritage Architectural Guides : January 1997

Seller ID: 74387

ISBN-13: 9780968303405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The pig that flew: The battle to privatize Canadian National

By: Bruce, Harry

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre : January 1997

Seller ID: 84372

ISBN-13: 9781550546095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Factors in Railway and Steamship Operation

By: Department, General Publicity

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Canadian Pacific Railway Foundation Library : January 1937

Seller ID: 73142

ISBN: B000NKNEM8

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Kettle Valley Railway (Railways of Western Canada, Volume One)

By: Doeksen, G.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Western Audio Visual Educational Services : January 1996

Seller ID: 73150

ISBN-13: 9780969081364

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sentimental Journey: An Oral History of Train Travel in Canada

By: Ferguson, Ted

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside : November 2000

Seller ID: 73156

ISBN-13: 9781550416046

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The railway has been many things to a lot of different people: a lifeline, a party, an adventure. Although you may still be able to travel on a few of the trains featured in Sentimental Journey (the Newfie Bullet, the "Peg," the "Prince George Eventually") many live on only in the memories of railwaymen and passengers, hooligans and honeymooners, young and old alike. Illustrated with many vintage and current photographs, Sentimental Journey brings to life, in nostalgic and entertaining oral history, the many faces of train travel in Canada. From the days when the dining cars were the ultimat...
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Whistlestop : a journey across Canada

By: Galt, George

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Methuen : January 1987

Seller ID: 74391

ISBN-13: 9780458805105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Railwayman's Pocket Book: Instructions for Engine Drivers & Firemen on the Great Railways

By: Hardy, Richard

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Sterling Publishing : November 2011

Seller ID: 84368

ISBN-13: 9781844861354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

This fascinating pocket book draws on numerous primary sources from the early days of the British rail network to the Big Four, British Railways, and beyond. Beginning in the days of steam power, this compact history outlines the rules of the rail network, locomotive management from driving to servicing, potential accidents, and the camaraderie of an engine driver's life, along with practical advice and conditions of service for the men on the footplate. The Railway-Man's Pocket Book will appeal to all railway enthusiasts.
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London's Termini

By: JACKSON, Alan A.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pan Books from David & Charles Series Illustrated : January 1972

Seller ID: 74403

ISBN-13: 9780330027472

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

An Illustrated Treasury of MLW - ALCO to Bombardier Locomotives

By: Kerr, James W.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: DPA-LTA : January 1983

Seller ID: 73149

ISBN-13: 9780919295117

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Railroads of Canada

By: Legget, Robert F.

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Douglas, David & Charles : January 1973

Seller ID: 63155

ISBN-13: 9780889140011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dust jacket wrapped in protective plastic. Many sticky notes with previous owner's marginalia included as we couldn't bring ourselves to remove them.
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