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Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly illustrated volume tracing the emergence of modern railways. In this book, Derek Hayes compiles archival maps and illustrations, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the world's early railways, as well as the locomotive and rail technology that was key to the development of those railroads. In addition to maps, the illustrations include photos of most of the surviving first locomotives from collections around...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...the history of the railroad in North America, from its origins in Britain in the 1820s and short lines connecting Eastern Seaboard rivers in the 1830s to Amtrak and the modern intermodal freights driving today's railroad revival."--Jacket.
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