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    This pounding wheel : a novel

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    "Running like a basic theme through this dramatic novel of intrigue and passionate love is the mighty Chesapeake and Ohio, a swashbuckling giant armored in steel, clanking grandly fourth to joust with the elements of gravity and space. Here is all the sweep and color of the great days when railroading was young, a dashing chapter in the history of one of America's greatest industries"--Jacket.

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    End of steel

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    Adventure, mystery, romance - Mr. Cooper has skillfully blended all three in a novel of the Northwest, where a nation was building civilization almost to the fringe of the Artic circle. Into this dramatic struggle of railroading in the wilds came Kirk Devore, a new recruit. This is his story--Adapted from jacket.

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    The new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, is now fully completed!

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    Image of a broadside with promotional text for the Great Western Railway and statistics about the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, with a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive train crossing the bridge in the upper left, and a wood engraved vignette of a steam locomotive passenger train in a mountainous region in the upper right.

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    Southern Pacific steam locomotives : a pictorial anthology of western railroading

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    The name Southern Pacific in the United States and throughout the world became synonymous with steam locomotives. In this pictorial anthology of Western Railroading in the grand manner, more than 115 choice illustrations trace the history of motive power from the early woodburner to the striking "Daylight" with its red and orange livery--Adapted from jacket.

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    Fiddle Hill

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    A tale of steam railroading in the mountain lines of the West as, beset with economic ills, the men of the Fiddle Hill Division fight for their way of life.

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    Railroad men : a book of photographs and collected stories

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    "Simpson Kalisher took his camera, his tape recorder, and a freight-car-load of idealism down to the railroad yards to hunt for a book. He came back with a stunning series of photographs, a number of yarns about railroading told in the vernacular, and an experience of the reality of the life of railroad men which destroyed some illusions and gave him a measure of understanding. 44 photographs in duotone, 24 yarns, the apologia of the author, and an introduction by Jonathan Williams"--Jacket.

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