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“People on a jet have only been on a trip; people on a train have been on a journey.”
— Ray Bradbury

“There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay [1892-1950]

Railroad  Links

May 10th is National Train Day in USA [est. 2008]
Federal Railroad Administration of U.S.D.O.T.
Assn. of American Railroads [merged 1934]
TF's Railroad Forum
Mass Transit info at Working Minds / Solutions
Progressive Railroading Magazine
Hoovers Railroad Industry Fact Sheet
Wes Barris's Steam Locomotives website
Rails USA - rail site directory
Steam Locomotive [dot] info website & Lineside Legacy column
Narrow Gauge Preservation Foundation [est. 2000]
Amherst [MA] Railway Society
Railcar Management, Inc. [aka RMI; est 1979]
RailConnect services division of RMI
worldwide Train Station Hotel Depot website
Assn. of Train Operating Companies [est. 1993] of U.K.
train horns for cars & trucks - based in Durango, Colorado
Leyshon's Books Etc. - specialists in out-of-print railroad literature
North American Railway Foundation [est. 1996]
AO's 'Vacation by Rail: See America by Train' blogpost, 5/2011

Classic Trains Magazine subscription at Magaz!nes.com subscribe at Amazon 4 issues/year for $23.50 magazine website

Railfan & Railroad Magazine subscribe at Amazon 12 issues/year for $34.95 magazine website

Trains Magazine subscription at Magaz!nes.com subscribe at Amazon 12 issues/year for $42.95 magazine website

Arizona Rail Passenger Assn.
Train Riders Assn. of California
Rail Passenger Alliance of California
RAILS: New Mexico's Passenger Rail Action Group [est. 1998]

Colorado Railroads Page

Railroad  Art
railroad-themed artwork at A-Train.com
railroad art by Rod Aszman of San Luis Obispo, CA
browse books by photographer O. Winston Link
O. Winston Link photo posters at AllPosters [dot] com
Don Ingwersen Railroad renderings train art

railroad posters at AllPosters.com
trains posters at AllPosters.com

"Railroad Sunset" [1929] click for larger view 37"x27" poster from Amazon

"Compartment C, Car 293" [1938] click for larger view

"Chair Car" [1965] click for larger view

other art by Edward Hopper [1882-1967]

Railroad  Museums

Association of Railway Museums [est. 1961]
National Railroad Museum [est. 1956] in Green Bay, WI
list of railroad museums & tourist lines at Wikipedia

California Railroad Museum [est. 1976] in Sacramento, CA
Railtown 1887 State Historic Park [est. 1992] in Jamestown, CA
Lomita [CA] Railroad Museum [est. 1966]
Grizzly Flats Railroad [est. 1938]: official website • O.E.R.M. webpages
South Coast Railroad Museum in Goleta, CA
Santa Maria Valley [CA] Railway Historical Museum
San Luis Obispo [CA] Railroad Museum
Laws Railroad Museum near Bishop, CA
Golden Gate Railroad Museum in Fremont, CA
Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA
Western American Railroad Museum in Barstow, CA
San Francisco [CA] Cable Car Museum [est. 1974]
Market Street Railway preservation group in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco [CA] Railway Museum [est. 2006]
'Roots of Motive Power' Railroad History Museum in Willits, CA
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in La Mesa & Campo, CA

official City website • Foundation

North Alabama Railroad Museum in Huntsville, AL
Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, south of Birmingham, AL
Arizona Railway Museum [est. 1983] in Chandler, AZ
Southern Arizona Transportation Museum in Tucson, AZ
Nevada County Depot [built 1911] & Museum [est. 1978] in Prescott, Arkansas
Georgetown Loop [est. 1884] Historic Mining & Railroad Park in Colorado

Connecticut Trolley Museum [est. 1940] in East Windsor, CT
Danbury [CT] Railway Museum [built 1903; est. 1994]
Gold Coast Railroad Museum [est. 1957] in Miami, FL
Southeast Railroad Museum [est. 1970] in Duluth, (Atlanta) GA
Midwest Central Railroad [est. 1960] in Mount Pleasant, IA
Illinois Railway Museum [est. 1941] in Union, IL
Indiana Transportation Museum, north of Indianapolis, IN
Whitewater Valley Railroad operating railroad museum [est. 1972], east of Indianapolis, IN
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum [est. 1953] in Baltimore, MD
The McComb Mississippi Railroad Museum [built 1901; est. 2003]
Water Valley [MS] Casey Jones Railroad Museum [est. 1985]
Frisco Railroad Museum in Springfield, MO
Nevada State Railroad Museum [est. 1980] in Carson City, NV
Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum - Carson City, NV
Nevada State Railroad Museum [est. 1996] in Boulder City, NV
Toy Train Depot [built 1898 in Torrance, NM; moved in 1974] in Alamogordo, NM
Clovis [NM] Depot Model Train Museum
New Mexico Rail Road & Transportation Museum in Las Cruces, NM
North Carolina Transportation Museum, between Winston-Salem & Charlotte

Oyster Bay [NY] Railroad Museum
North Carolina Transportation Museum [est. 1977]
Yukon, Oklahoma Railroad Museum
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
South Carolina Railroad Museum [est. 1973] near Columbia, SC
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum [est. 1961] near Chattanooga, TN
Casey Jones Home & Museum [est. 1965] in Jackson, TN
Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Knoxville, TN
Eastern Shore Railroad Museum [est. 1988] in Parksley, VA
Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA

Canadian Museum of Rail Travel [est. 1976] in Cranbrook, BC
British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre Museum [est. 1965]
Hillcrest Lumber Co. Climax-geared locomotive #9 [built 1915] at B.C. Forest Discovery Centre

National Railway Museum [est. 1968] in York, U.K.
National Railway Museum NE Branch [est. 2004] in Shildon, County Durham, U.K.

Class  I  Railroads
Trains Magazine's Class I Railroad Directory
Class I Railroad entry at Wikipedia
SteelRoads web application site of the Class I Railroads

	"Atlas of North American Railroads" [orig 1996, rev 2005] by Bill Yenne The maps are organized by railroad, rather than by state, and go back as far as 1831 M.B.I./Voyageur Press 11x9 hardcover [12/2005] for $25.86
	"Historical Atlas of The North American Railroad" [2010] by Derek Hayes includes over 400 old railroad maps, organized in roughly chronological order Univ CA Press 13x9¾ hardcover [10/2010] for $26.37

The seven Class I railroads of America are a monopoly: their combined sales revenue is 91% of all U.S. rail freight traffic. The railroad industry took in over $40 billion in 2004. Union Pacific Railroad [est. 1862, U.P./S.P. merger Sept. 1996] Union Pacific Railroad entry at Wikipedia Union Pacific Historical Society [est. 1984]    "M.B.I. Railroad Color History: Union Pacific Railroad" [2009] by Joe Welsh & Kevin J. Holland M.B.I./Voyageur Press hardcover [1/2010] for $28.12 "M.B.I. Railroad Color History: Union Pacific Railroad" [2000] by Brian Solomon M.B.I./Voyageur Press 10½x8¼ pb [9/2000] for $21.33 Norfolk Southern Corp. [merged 1982] History back to 1827; formed by June 1982 merger of the Norfolk & Western Railway [1838-1982] and the Southern Railway Company [1894-1982]; acquired elements of Conrail in 1997. Norfolk Southern Railroad entry at Wikipedia C.S.X. Transportation, Inc. [merger 1980] C.S.X. Transportation entry at Wikipedia Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Est. 1849 & 1859; 1960 merger of Great Northern, Northern Pacific, CB&Q; 1970 merger with SP&S and Pacific Coast RR to form Burlington Northern; Frisco merger 1980; merger of BN & SF Sept. 1995; purchased by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $44 billion in November 2009 Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway entry at Wikipedia    "M.B.I. Railroad Color History: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway" [2005] by Brian Solomon M.B.I./Voyageur Press 12½x10¾ hardcover [11/2005] for $35.00 Kansas City Southern Railway Co. [est. 1887] Kansas City Southern Railway entry at Wikipedia Kansas City Southern RR Historical Society wholly-owned subsidiary Kansas City Southern de México Kansas City Southern de México entry at Wikipedia The Soo Line Railroad Co. Founded in 1883 as the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway; wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Canadian Pacific since 1990. Soo Line Railroad entry at Wikipedia Soo Line Historical & Technical Society [est. 1970] PN's Soo Line fansite RK's timeline of Soo Line history Grand Trunk Corp. [est. 1852] U.S. subsidiary of Canadian National; since 1995, primarily a holding company for Grand Trunk Western RR, Illinois Central RR, Wisconsin Central RR, the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway, and Great Lakes Transportation. Grand Trunk Railway entry at Wikipedia Grand Trunk Western RR Historical Society LK's Grand Trunk Railway fansite ... and in Canada: Canadian National Railway [est. 1832, merger 1919, IPO Nov. 1995] Canadian National Railway entry at Wikipedia Canadian National Railway Historic Photograph Archives Canadian National Lines S.I.G.   Canadian Pacific Railway [est. 1881] Canadian Pacific Railway's official heritage website Canadian Pacific Railway entry at Wikipedia

Major  Lines  Merged  Into  Above  Class I  Railroads

Burlington Northern Railroad [1970-1995]
[created in 1970 by the merger of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad,
Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway]
Burlington Northern Railroad entry at Wikipedia
Friends of The Burlington Northern RR Historical Society [est. 1992]

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
[est. 1848, merged into Burlington Northern in 1970]
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad entry at Wikipedia

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
[est. 1847, generally known as 'The Milwaukee Road'; merged into Soo Line in 1986]
Milwaukee Road entry at Wikipedia

	"Milwaukee Road Remembered: A Fresh Look At An Unusual Railroad" [1990] by Jim Scribbins Univ MN Press 8½x11 pb [12/2008] for $21.86 Kalmbach Publng hardcover [6/90] out of print/used
	"M.B.I. Railroad Color History: The Milwaukee Road" [2005] by Tom Murray M.B.I./Voyageur Press 11xx8¾ hardcover [10/2005] for $28.08

Frisco Lines {St. Louis & San Francisco Railway}
[est. 1876; merged into Burlington Northern 1980]
Frisco Lines/SL&SF entry at Wikipedia

Great Northern Railway
[est. 1889; merged into Burlington Northern in 1960]
Great Northern Railway entry at Wikipedia

Northern Pacific Railway
[est. 1864; merged into Burlington Northern 1960]
Northern Pacific Railway entry at Wikipedia

Santa Fe [merged into B.N.S.F. 1995]
[est. 1859 as Atchison & Topeka RR Company; renamed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in 1863]
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway entry at Wikipedia
Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society [est. 1994]

AT&SF concessionaire Harvey House Restaurants [1875-1968]

	"All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of The Southwest, 1890s to 1930s" [2005] by Victoria E. Dye Univ NM Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $16.47
	"Santa Fe: The Chief Way" [2001] by Robert Strein, John Vaughan & C. Fenton Richards Jr. New Mexico Magazine 10x10 pb [9/2001] out of print/used New Mexico Magazine 10¼x10¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.37
	"M.B.I. Railroad Color History: Santa Fe Railway" [2008] by Steve Glischinski M.B.I./Voyageur Press 10¾x8½ hardcover [12/2008] for $27.01

Southern Pacific Railroad
[began as the Central Pacific Railroad in 1862; Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865,
and the two merged in 1885; SP merged into the Union Pacific in 1996]
Southern Pacific Railroad entry at Wikipedia

Southern Pacific RR Historical & Technical Society

"M.B.I. Railroad Color History: Southern Pacific Railroad" [2007] by Brian Solomon M.B.I./Voyageur Press 11x8½ hardcover [11/2007] for $24.63

    
Southern Railway Company [1894-1990]
[history back to 1827; Southern Railway formed in 1894; merged into
Norfolk Southern in 1982, lost identity in 1990]
Southern Railway entry at Wikipedia
Southern Railway Historical Assn./Society

"M.B.I. Railroad Color History: Southern Railway" [2007] by Tom Murray M.B.I./Voyageur Press hardcover [12/2007] for $26.97

Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway [1905-70]
[est. 1905; merged into Burlington Northern 1970]
Spokane, Portland & Seattle entry at Wikipedia

Wisconsin Central Railway
[est. 1871; wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Canadian National since 2001]
C.N. official Wisconsin Central history
Wisconsin Central Railway entry at Wikipedia

U.S.A. Shortline  Railroads

American Short Line & Regional Railroad Database
Trains Magazine's Regional & Short Line Railroad Directory
U.P. Railroad's Short Line Railroad Directory
list of railroad museums & tourist lines at Wikipedia
Norfolk Southern Railroad directory of shortlines (by state)
Tourist Railways Information Center
T.R.A.In. - Tourist Railway Assn., Inc.

U.S.A.  Shortline  Railroads  Operating  Today
list of active narrow-gauge tourist railroads
The Blanchard Company - marketing & management
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. [est. 1899] - operates 47 shortlines worldwide
Rail America - operates 47 shortlines in U.S. & Canada [est. 1986]
LT's unofficial Rail America fansite
Pinsly Railroad Co. of FL, AR, TX & MA [est. 1938]
American Orient Express™ rail tours [1997]
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad [est. 1854]
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway Technical & Historical Society
Terminal Railroad Association [est. 1889] of St Louis, Missouri
Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis Historical & Technical Society

White Pass & Yukon Route narrow-guage railroad [1898-1982; reopened 1988] official website • Wikipedia White Pass & Yukon relics photos    "The White Pass and Yukon Route: A Pictorial History" [1980] by Stan B. Cohen Pictorial Histories Publng Co. 10¾x8¼ pb [3/80] out of print/many used Verde Canyon Railroad [est. 1911] out of Clarkdale, AZ Arizona Eastern Narrow-Gauge Railway from Miami/Globe, AZ to Bowie, AZ [est. 1899] Copper Spike Railway in Globe, Arizona Grand Canyon Railway & Resort in Northern Arizona Yosemite Mtn. Sugar Pine Railroad [logger train April thru October] in California Roaring Camp Railroads in Felton, California [Santa Cruz County; est. 1963] California Western Railroad 'Skunk Train' = Willits to Fort Bragg [built 1885] Fillmore & Western Railway in Ventura County, California Pacific Locomotive Assn. / Niles Canyon Railway [est. 1987] in Fremont, California Sierra Railroad Co. [est. 1897] in Oakdale, California Yreka Western Railroad [est. 1887] in NW California San Francisco [CA] Municipal Railway [est. 1912] Colorado Travel Railroads Page Essex Steam Train [est. 1871, re-opened 1971] in River Valley, CT Friends of The Valley Railroad Florida East Coast Railway [est. 1883]: fansite + official website Lahaina, Kaanapali & Pacific Santa Fe Southern Railway [est. 3/1991] in Santa Fe, NM [18-mile AT&SF spur line from Lamy to Santa Fe in New Mexico completed in January 1880; purchased & re-opened as tourist & freight line in 1992] Sumpter Valley Railway narrow gauge [est. 1971] in North Central Oregon Sumpter Valley Heisler-geared locomotive #3 [built 1915] Mount Hood Railroad [est. 1906] in Hood River, Oregon Oregon Pacific Railroad [est. 1987] in Portland, Oregon Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad [est. 1995] Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Oregon Coast Scenic RR Heisler-geared locomotive #2 [built 1910] Strasburg Rail Road [est. 1832; saved/rebuilt 1958] in Lancaster, PA East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad [est. 1872; saved 1960] of Rockhill Furnace, PA Friends of the East Broad Top RR [est.1983] New Hope & Ivyland Rail Road [est. 1962] of New Hope, PA   Grapevine [TX] Vintage Railroad Bay Coast Railroad [est. 2007] at Cape Charles, VA Green Mountain Railroad [est. 1964] in Bellows Falls, VT Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum [est. 1986] in Chehalis, WA Mt. Ranier Scenic Railroad [est. 1981] in Southwestern Washington State Hillcrest Lumber Co. Climax-geared locomotive #10 [built 1928] at Mt. Ranier Scenic RR Cass Scenic Railroad [built 1900; incorp. 1961] State Park in West Virginia Cass Scenic RR Shay-geared locomotive #2 [built 1928] Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad [est. 1974]

	"American Shortline Railway Guide: A Directory of Today's Diverse Small & Medium-Size Railroads - Facts, Figures & Locomotive Rosters For Over 500 Short Lines" [1996] by Edward A. Lewis Kalmbach 5th edition pb [5/96] for $16.47
	"Tourist Trains 2006: 41st Annual Guide To Tourist Railroads & Museums" [2006] from Empire State Railway Museum Kalmbach 8½x5½ pb [3/2006] for $13.45
	Light Iron Digest Magazine [bi-monthly; est. 1999] 'For The Narrow Gauge, Industrial & Shortline Enthusiast' magazine official website direct subscription: 6 issues/year for $26.00

Foreign Heritage Railroads
West Somerset Railway [est. 1862, reopened 1976] in western England

Trolleys,  Interurban  &  Light  Rail  Lines
Edwards Rail Cars Mfg. Co. [est. 1921; re-est. 1998] in Montgomery, AL
Phoenix [AZ] Trolley Museum [est. 1975]
Valley Metro Light Rail System {opening 12/2008} in Phoenix, AZ
Old Pueblo Trolley [est. 1983] operating transit museum in Tucson, AZ

Californians for High-Speed Trains Coalition
C.H.S.T.C. 's Proposition 1-A won 53% to 47% in the Nov 2008 election
Nevada County [CA] Traction Company [est. 1988]
Bay Area Electric Railroad Assn. [est. 1946] Western Railway Museum in Suisun, CA
San Diego [CA] Trolley [est. 1981]
Bay Area Rapid Transit [launched 1972] of California
JT's Cable Car fansite
historic Waterfront Red Car Trolley Line [re-opened July 2003] in San Pedro, CA
Exposition Light Rail Transit Line in West Los Angeles, CA

  Fort Collins [CO] Municipal Railway streetcar line [1907-1951; restored 1985]
Connecticut Trolley Museum [est. 1940] in East Windsor, CT
New England Railroad {proposed line from Maine to Montreal, PQ}

"Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation" [2009] by Paul Weyrich & William S. Lind A collection of studies that supports a conservative view that light rail, commuter rail, and intercity rail are good for America Reconnecting America 9x8 pb [2009] out of print/used

Railroad  Film  Festival

      now on a separate page      

Railroads  in  Fiction

two public domain railroad novels by Arthur Griffiths [1838-1908]

"The Passenger From Calais" [1905]
Qontro Classic Books 11x8½ pb [7/2010] for $9.99
IndyPublish 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] for $19.99
free online text at Project Gutenberg

"The Rome Express" [1907]
General Books 9x6 pb [3/2010] for $6.59
Kessinger Publng 7x10 hardcover [5/2010] for $26.56
free online text at Project Gutenberg

	"The U.P. Trail: A Novel" [1918 bestseller] by Zane Grey [1872-1939] 1st World Library 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $20.95 Kessinger 9x6 pb [5/2004] for $23.07 Pocket pb [4/91] out of print/used Classic Books hardcover [5/2000] for $49.99 Amereon hardcover [6/40] for $30.95 Blackstone UNABR audio [8/97] 10 tapes for $69.95
	"The Boomer: A Story of The Rails" [1942 classic] by Harry Bedwell, Introduction by James D. Porterfield Author Harry Bedwell [1888–1955] wrote many short stories, and this is his only novel, one that is widely considered the best railroad novel ever written. The story of itinerent telegrapher Eddie Sand portrays an elite fraternity of railroad men, workers who were driven by one of the defining elements of the American character – a desire to wander. Univ MN Press 7½x5 pb [9/2006] for $16.95 Farrar & Rinehart hardcover [1942] out of print/scarce
	"Railroad Avenue: Great Stories and Legends of American Railroading" [1945] by Freeman H. Hubbard McGraw-Hill hardcover [1945] out of print/used McGraw-Hill hardcover [1945] out of print/used

"Trouble Follows Me: A Detective Story" [1946 novel] by Kenneth Millar [1915-83] {later pen name Ross Macdonald} A spy novel, re-issued in 1950 & 1955 as "Night Train". The geography includes Honolulu in Hawai'i, Detroit & Ann Arbor in Michigan; San Diego & Santa Barbara in California, and Tijuana, Mexico; the middle third takes place on the 'Grand Canyon Limited' train from Detroit to Los Angeles. Young Navy lieutenant Sam Drake and his longtime pal are caught up in a supposed suicide in Hawai'i, then a similar faked suicide in Detroit; contact with the F.B.I. does not prevent further murder attempts on the train to the West Coast. (Much of the tale involves race issues and 'Black Israel'.) Bantam mass pb [8/83] out of print/used Bantam mass pb [9/72] out of print/used Lion Books mass pb [10/50] out of print/used Dodd, Mead & Co. hardcover [1946] out of print/used

	"The Train That Never Came Back, and Other Railroad Stories" [1952] by Freeman H. Hubbard, Illustrated by Kurt Wiese Whittlesey House hardcover [1952] out of print/used "The Phantom Brakeman and Other Railroad Stories" selected from "The Train That Never Came Back" [1961] by Freeman H. Hubbard, Illustrated by Jerry Robinson Scholastic Book Services mass pb [1961] out of print/used Scholastic Book Services mass pb [undated] out of print/used
	"Atlas Shrugged" [1957 classic] by Ayn Rand [1905-82] John Galt leads an intellectual strike to 'stop the engine of the world', while Dagny Taggart fights bureaucrats and mobs of looters to keep the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad alive. Signet pb [8/96] for $8.99 Plume 9x6 pb [8/99] for $13.60 Dutton 35th Anniv 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/92] out of print/used Signet 35th Anniv pb [3/92] out of print/used Highbridge ABR audio CD [6/2000] for $23.07
	"Plugged Nickel" mystery novel [1988] by Robert Campbell Speeding thru Nebraska on the California Zephyr, someone pulls the emergency cord and railroad detective Jake Hatch is thrown from the train, landing on a severed corpse. Pocket mass pb [3/88] out of print/many, many used Pocket Book Club hardcover [1988] out of print/used
	"Red Cent" mystery novel [1989] by Robert Campbell A sniper puts a bullet thru the window of a fast-moving diner car, and a man is killed. Railroad detective Jake Hatch needs to find out whether the shooting was random or the victim was intended and the killer is a crack shot. Pocket mass pb [2/91] out of print/used Pocket mass pb [1/89] out of print/many used
	"Short Lines: A Collection of Classic American Railroad Stories" [14 stories; 1996] Edited by Rob Johnson B&N Books pb [5/2000] out of print/used St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [3/96] out of print/used
	"Parallel Lies" [2001] by Ridley Pearson Ex-cop Peter Tyler is hired to investigate sabotage on the Northern Union Railroad. Hyperion mass pb [7/2002] for $7.99 Hyperion 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2001] out of print/many used Brilliance ABR audio CD [6/2004] for $16.99
	"The Christmas Train" [2002] by David Baldacci Warner mass pb [11/2004] for $5.99 Warner 8¾x5¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $10.36 Warner UNABR audio CD [11/2004] for $10.19
	"The White Train" [2003] by Larry Purcell A secret train carrying nuclear missiles and protected by anti-terrorist devices vanishes without a trace. The President receives a fax in the Oval Office that is signed by a mysterious militant group, stating a simple ransom demand. But the highly illegal mission must remain secret, or the President's political career is ended. iUniverse 9x6 pb [9/2003] for $14.95 iUniverse hardcover [9/2003] for $24.95
	"Two Trains Running" [2004] by Lucius Shepard includes Spin Magazine article "The Freight Train Riders of America Story" (1998), the short story 'Jail Bait', and the novella 'Over Yonder' Golden Gryphon Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2004] for $19.62
	"On The Wrong Track: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2007] by Steve Hockensmith Tired of the cowboy life, the Amlingmeyer brothers take a job as guards for the Pacific Express, and soon are contending with a gang of outlaws, a seductive suffragette, a shady Chinaman, a drunken railroad detective, the King of The Hoboes – and the severed head of the baggage man. Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2008] for $11.01 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $23.95 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [3/2007] for $26.59
	"Pelican Road: A Novel" [2008] by Howard Bahr On Christmas Eve in 1940, snow drifts down on the rail line between Meridian, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana as freight 4512 speeds south toward the northbound Silver Star passenger train. MacAdam/Cage Publrs 9x6½ hardcover [6/2008] for $16.50
	"Super: A Novel" [2010] by Jim Lehrer A trip on the famous Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles (in 1956) involves a murdered railroad passenger agent, with possible links to Clark Gable and to the deaths of Harry S. Truman and a Hollywood movie producer. Random House 8x5¼ pb [4/2011] for $10.20 Random House 8¼x5½ hardcover [4/2010] for $16.50
	"Train Dreams: A Novella" [2011] by Denis Johnson   First published in The Paris Review in 2002; an account of the life of an Idaho Panhandle railroad laborer, an ode to the vanished West that captures the splendor of a country that lost faith in its own mythology. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover [8/2011] for $11.30
	"Dead Aggies Don't Drive Trains" [2011] by Don Bemis   Unemployed Rex Albert went wandering along a soon-to-be-abandoned rail line in the New Mexico desert; his decision to turn off at Communicado Junction and explore a hundred-year-old twice-failed townsite leads to all sorts of trouble. self-publd 9x6 pb [11/2011] for $15.00 author's official website

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