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Armbruster. Kurt E. Orpahn Road: The Railroad Comes to Seattle, 1853-1911. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1999.

Bain, David H. Empire Express: Building the First Continental Railroad. NY: Viking, 1999.

Blumberg, Rhonda. Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1996.

Ely, James W. Railroads and American Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

Felton, David L. The Central Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, Sacramento: Historical Sites Archaeology at the Location of the Western Terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad. Sacramento: Dept. of Parks and Recreation, Cultural Heritage Section, 1978.

Galloway, John D. The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific. NY: Arno Press, 1981.

Griswold, Wesley S. A Work of Giants: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997.

Lewty, Peter J. Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1995.

McCague, James. Moguls and Iron Men: The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. NY: Harper and Row, 1964.

Mencken, August. The Railroad Passenger Car: An Illustrated History of the First Hundred Years, with Accounts by Contemporary Passengers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Mickelson, Sig. The Northern Pacific Railroad and the Selling of the West: A Nineteenth-Century Public Relations Venture. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, 1993.

Miner, H. Craig. The St. Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad: The Thirty-Fifth Parallel Project, 1853-1890. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1972.

Painter, Gerald L. The Tie that Binds: Grenville M. Dodge and the Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Northfield, VT: Norwich University Press, 1985.

Stilgoe, John. The Metropolitan Corridor: The Railroad and the American Scene. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.

Stonewell, David O. Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Stover, John F. American Railroads. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Strom, Claire. Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity: Aid under the Radical Republicans, 1865-77. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Taylor, George Rogers, and Irene D. Neu. The American Railroad, 1861-1890. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.

White, John H., Jr. American Locomotives: An Engineering History, 1830-1880. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

White, John H., Jr. The American Railroad Passenger Car. Parts 1 and 2. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Williams, John H. A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. NY: Times Books, 1988.

Yen, Tzu-kuei. Chinese Workers and the First Transcontinental Railroad of the United States of America. 1977.

Young, Earle B. Tracks to the Sea: Galveston and Western Railroad Development, 1866-1900. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.