North American trains : steam, diesel and electric locomotives from pioneer days to modern times / David Ross & Brian Solomon.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Barnes & Noble Books, c2004.Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cmISBN:- 0760755647
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Includes index.
Originally published: London : Amber Books, 2004.
Beginnings of the railroad -- Developments and the Civil War -- The great expansion West -- Size and safety -- Railroads, government and people -- The North American locomotive -- The Canadian Transcontinental -- The United States mail -- Power innovations and World War I -- The inter-war years -- Production in World War II -- Railroads in the postwar era -- Into the new century.