Incoming Resources
- Opening the West, the railroads, Dennis R. Flatley
- The story of the golden spike, by R. Conrad Stein ; illustrated by Tom Dunnington
- Rough and ready railroaders, A.S. Gintzler
- Metropolitan corridor, railroads and the American scene, John R. Stilgoe
- The old iron road, an epic of rails, roads, and the urge to go West, David Haward Bain
- The transcontinental railroad, triumph of a dream, Dan Elish
- Southern Pacific Railroad, Brian Solomon
- Nothing like it in the world, the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Railfan & railroad
- The American Heritage history of railroads in America, by Oliver Jensen
- The American railroad, Joe Welsh
- New York Central Railroad, Brian Solomon, with Mike Schafer
- Great American scenic railroads
- The railroads, written and illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
- Encyclopedia of North American railroading, 150 years of railroading in the United States and Canada, Freeman Hubbard
- America's railroads, by Lynn M. Stone
- Passage to Union, how the railroads transformed American life, 1829-1929, Sarah H. Gordon
- All aboard for Christmas, Christopher Jennison
- The Northern Pacific ;, main street of the northwest., A pictorial history by Charles R. Wood
- More classic American railroads, Mike Schafer
- Railroading coast to coast, riding the locomotive cabs, steam, electric and diesel, 1923-1950, by S. Kip Farrington, Jr
- Railroads in the age of regulation: 1900-1980, edited by Keith L. Bryant, Jr
- Classic American railroads, Mike Schafer
- Railroads in the nineteenth century, edited by Robert L. Frey
- Outbound trains, in the era before the mergers, Jim Boyd
- Riding the rails in the USA, trains in American life, Martin W. Sandler
- Right-of-way ;, a guide to abandoned railroads in the United States
- American shortline railway guide, by Edward A. Lewis ; editor, George Drury
- American railroads, John F. Stover
- Railroads, the great American adventure, by Charlton Ogburn ; photographed by James A. Sugar ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C
- Nothing like it in the world, the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Unfinished business, the railroad in American life, Maury Klein
- Tracks across America, the story of the American railroad, 1825-1900 : with photographs, maps, and drawings, Leonard Everett Fisher
- Trains
- The first railroads, Sally Senzell Isaacs ; illustrations by Mark Bergin
- The railroad builders, a chronicle of the welding of the States, by John Moody
- The complete book of North American railroading, Kevin EuDaly [and others]
- Rails across America, a history of railroads in North America, consultant editor, William L. Withuhn
- Santa Fe Railway, Steve Glischinski
- The iron road, a portrait of American railroading, text by Richard Snow ; photos. by David Plowden
- All aboard!, the railroad in American life, George H. Douglas
- Night trains, the Pullman system in the golden years of American rail travel, Peter T. Maiken
- When the railroad leaves town, American communities in the age of rail line abandonment : Western United States, Joseph P. Schwieterman ; foreword by John R. Stilgoe
- Railroads across America, a celebration of 150 years of railroading, Michael J. Del Vecchio
- The transcontinental railroad, America at its best?, by Robert Young
- The story of American railroads, by Stewart H. Holbrook
- Full steam ahead, the race to build a transcontinental railroad, by Rhoda Blumberg
- The Central Pacific Railroad, Clark J. Evans
- Railroads, an American journey, Don Ball, Jr
- Building the transcontinental railroad, by James Barter