A revision of the classic text on railroad engineering, considered the ``bible'' of the field for three decades.

"This book recounts the most serious railroad accidents worldwide from 1853 to the present time.

This Two book set explains the methods of construction of wood, steel, and aluminum cars with clarity and precision. White traces the evolution of wheels and brakes, dining cars and sleeping compartments.

This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal.

And no railroad was more crucial than the transcontinental line, that miraculously thin band of iron ribbon tying East to West. Railroad Crossing explores the public's response to the railroad, particularly in California.

Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth.

Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.