By Train
Timothy Jacobs (1950- ).
The History of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Greenwich, CT: Bonanza, 1988.
Gift of Curtis A. Bayer
Railroad Gazette: A Journal of Transportation. July 16, 1870. Vol. XIV, no. 16.
Today published as Railway Age, this journal was founded in 1856 as the Western Railroad Gazette. It adopted its present title in 1870.
Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859. New York: C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co.; San Francisco, H. H. Bancroft & Co., 1860.
Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, was no stranger to narrative accounts as a newspaperman. In fact, this account of his journey has particular significance, as he is credited with encouraging westward expansion and coining the phrase, “Go West, young man.”
Edwin P. Alexander.
The Pennsylvania Railroad: A Pictorial History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1947.
Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898).
The Railways of America: Their Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances. London: J. Murray, 1890.
The chapter shown, “Railway Passenger Travel”, was originally written by H. Porter for publication in Scribner’s Magazine in September 1888.
A. Bray (Ables Bray) Dickinson (1890-1958).
Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods: The Story of the North Pacific Coast Railroad and San Francisco Bay Paddle-Wheel Ferries. Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books [1967].