Railroad History Book Award

Given by Railway and Locomotive Historical Society

31 Works 1,654 Books 23 Reviews 4.0
Years:
All, 2014 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1)
WorkYear
Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line by Gregory L. Schneider
2014
Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey by Theodore Kornweibel Jr.
2011
Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer by William D. Middleton
2010
Birmingham Rails, The Last Golden Era: from World War II to Amtrak by Marvin Clemons
2009
The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry by Rush Loving
2007
Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930 by Richard J. Orsi
2006
A Passion for Trains: The Railroad Photography of Richard Steinheimer by Richard Steinheimer
2005
Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers (Ohio) by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.
2004
Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 by Steven W. Usselman
2003
Merging Lines : American Railroads, 1900-1970 by Richard Saunders Jr.
2002
Main lines : rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970-2002 by Richard Saunders
2002
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain
2001
Twilight of the Great Trains by Fred W. Frailey
2000
The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System (Railroads in America) by H. Roger Grant
1999
Railroads of Indiana by Richard S. Simons
1998
The trail of the Blue Comet: A history of the Jersey Central's New Jersey Southern Division by Christopher T. Baer
1997
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915: A Study in American Industrial Practice by John K. Brown
1996
Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest by Carlos A. Schwantes
1995
The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853 by James Dilts
1994
Crossroads of commerce: The Pennsylvania Railroad calendar art of Grif Teller by Dan Cupper
1993
The North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Allen W. Trelease
1992
American Narrow Gauge Railroads by George Hilton
1991
Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980 (Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography)
1990
Source notes for Union Pacific: Birth of a railroad, 1862-1893 by Maury Klein
1989
The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 by Don L. Hofsommer
1988
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould by Maury Klein
1987
Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene by John R. Stilgoe
1986
The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company (Railroads in America) by H. Roger Grant
1985
The Railroaders by Stuart Leuthner
1984
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Route of Phoebe Snow, in the twentieth century, 1899-1960 by Thomas Townsend Taber
1983
Burlington West: A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad by Richard C. Overton
1982

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