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Fred Harvey - Appetite for America
by Stephen Fried / Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group / ISBN: 0553804375 / Hardback / First Edition. Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Created a Hospitality Empire That Tamed the Wild West. This book has just been released in March 2010. The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation’s service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans.
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Writing the Rails: train Adventures by the World's Best-Loved Writers
by Edward C. Goodman/ Publisher: Black Dog & Levanthal Publishers/ ISBN: 1-579-122051 / Hardcover 2001/ The joys of traveling by train are explored by writers Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Rebecca West and Mary McCarthy.
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A Baggage Car with Lace Curtains
by Kay Fisher / Publisher: B&K Fisher / ISBN: 0906-3004-1-4 / used book-Paperback 1986 /OUT-OF-PRINT/ COLLECTIBLE/ The true story of a young wife obliged to live in a railroad camp. She turns an old baggage car into a home and relays her trials and tribulations of this period in her life.
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All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo, World's Greatest Railroad Buff
by Rogers M. Whitaker/ Publisher: Grossman Publisher / ISBN: 0-670-112941/ Hardcover 1974 /OUT-OF-PRINT/ COLLECTIBLE/ E.M. Frimbo, was the world's greatest railroad buff. He wrote for the New Yorker for four decades, contributing essays on train travel throughout the world.
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Boomer: Railroad Memoirs-Hardcover
by Linda Niemann / Publisher: University of California Press / ISBN: 0-520-06844-0/ used Hardcover 1990/ OUT-OF-PRINT/ COLLECTIBLE/ republished as 'On the Rails: A Women's Journey'/ Autobiography of Linda Niemann. Revealing story of a woman surviving as a railroader, plus a look into her personal life as well.
(SEE-'On the Rails: A Women's Journey')
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All Aboard! The Railroad in American Life
by George Douglas/ Publisher: Marlowe & Company/ ISBN: 1-569-248761 / Paperback 1995/ The social history of the railroad in American life from 1830 to the present and how it shaped culture life of the American people.
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American Railroads of the Nineteenth Century: A Pictorial History in Victorian Wood Engravings
SPECIAL ORDER/ by Jim Harter / Publisher: Texas Tech University Press / ISBN: 089672-402-6 / Hardback 1999 / Big (9x12) collection of hundreds of illustrations. This book traces the development and growth of rail lines across the country.
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Boxcar Bertha - Hardback
by Dr. Ben L. Reitman / Publisher: Amok Press / ISBN: 0-941693-06-6 / used book-Hardback 1990 / Book of the Month Club Edition / OUT-OF-PRINT/ COLLECTIBLE / republished as 'Sister of the Road, the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha'/ Her name was Boxcar Bertha Thompson (not a real person)and she traveled by open freight car through the 1930's. This is her autobiography as told to Dr. Ben Reitman. Her encounters and stories are vivid, graphic and shocking.
(SEE-'Sister of the Road, the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha')
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Hidden in Plain View - Hardback
by Jacqueline L. Tobin, Raymond G. Dobard, Cuesta Ray Benberry / Publisher: Doubleday / ISBN: 0385491379 / A secret story about quilts and the underground railroad.
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Empire Express - Building the First Transcontinental Railroad - Paperback
by David Howard Bain / Publisher: Penguin Putnam / ISBN:0-14-008499-1 / Paperback 2000 /SALE ITEM/ This 800 page book tells the story of the of the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railways on May 10, 1869. As well as the political aspects, bad dealings and financial hardships surrounding this major event.
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