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Railroads: Welcome

Contains databases available at the Linda Hall Library, databases freely available outside the library, samples of books in the library catalog, web resources and the railroad lecture series.

Free Databases

These databases are freely available on the web.

ASCE's Civil Engineering Database This link opens in a new window
"ASCE's free information retrieval service providing access to over 170,000 bibliographic records of all ASCE publications."
National Transportation Library Database This link opens in a new window
"Information that supports transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer activities from federal, state, local, tribal and other government agencies."
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
"Provides access to 270,000,000+ bibliographic records of libraries throughout the world."

Subscription Databases

These databases are available in the Library at our Public Workstations or via our WiFi network.

Books from the Catalog

From Rail to Road and Back Again? by Ralf Roth (Editor); Colin Divall
Call Number: 2nd Floor HE243 .F76 2015
ISBN: 9781409440468
The Pennsylvania Railroad by Albert J. Churella
Call Number: 2nd Floor HE2791.P4 C48
ISBN: 9780812243482
Running Out of Steam by David Burke
Call Number: 2nd Floor HE3468 .B85 2017
ISBN: 9780648043928
Engineering Pittsburgh by Asce Pittsburgh ASCE Pittsburgh Section 100th Anniversary Publication Committee (Compiled by)
Call Number: TA25.P58 E6 2018
ISBN: 9781625859693
The First Railroads by Derek Hayes
Call Number: 2nd Floor TF15 .H38 2017
ISBN: 9780228100096
Railway Transportation Systems by Christos N. Pyrgidis
Call Number: 2nd Floor TF200 .P97 2016
ISBN: 9781482262155
The Train and the Telegraph by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
Call Number: 2nd Floor TF563 .S39 2019
ISBN: 9781421429748
General Motors Type 5 by Ross Taylor
Call Number: 2nd Floor TJ619.4.G72 T38 2015
ISBN: 9781445648507
Across the Continent by Daniel Davis
Call Number: 2nd Floor TR715 .D38 2018
ISBN: 9781607816379
Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modern America by Richard White
Call Number: HE2751.W55 2011
Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century by Robert Routledge
Call Number: T19.R86 1876 ESL
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose
Call Number: TF23.A45 2000
Trains and technology : the American railroad in the nineteenth century by Anthony J. Bianculli
Call Number: TF23.B52 v.1 - v.4
ISBN: 9780874137293
The great book of trains by John Brian Hollingsworth; Arthur F. Cook
Call Number: TF145.H66 1998
Mr. Pullman's elegant palace car by Lucius Morris Beebe
Call Number: TF457.B4 1961
Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive by J. Parker Lamb
Call Number: TJ603.4.A45 L35 2003
The history of the first locomotives in America by William H. Brown
Call Number: TJ603.B86 1871 ESL Rare Book Cage

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