Recommended Reading:
General information about rail transportation history and society:
Douglas, George H. All Aboard!: The Railroad in American Life. 1992, Paragon House, NY. ISBN 1-55778-486-8.
Hammond, Paul. Railway Odyssey, A Guidebook to the Orange Empire Railway Museum. Second Edition, 1992, Orange Empire Railway Museum, Perris, CA. ISBN 0-933563-17-5.
Holbrook, Stewart. The Story of American Railroads. 1947, Crown Publishers, New York.
Hubbard, Freeman. Railroad Avenue: Great Stories and Legends of American Railroading. Revised edition, 1964, Golden West Books, San Marino, CA.
Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads: From 1852 Through the Reign of the Giants. 1926, Macmillan Company, New York. Reprinted 1974 Peter Smith, Glouchester, Mass. ISBN: 0-8446-28050-0.
Stillgoe, John R. Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. 1983, Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 0-300-03042-8.
Withuhn, William L., Consultant Editor. Rails Across America: A History of Railroads in North America. 1993, Smithmark Publishers, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-8317-6482-1.
Information about rail transportation history and technology:
Armstrong, John H. The Railroad - What It Is, What It Does, The Introduction to Railroading. Third Edition, 1994, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. Omaha, NE. ISBN 0-911382-04-6.
Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile, The Making of the Modern City. 1987, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA. ISBN 0-520-07395-9.
Hilton, George W. American Narrow Gauge Railroads. 1990, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. ISBN 0-8047-1731-1.
Hilton, George W. The Cable Car in America. 1971, Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 0-8310-7082-0.
Hilton, George W. and John F. Due. The Electric Interurban Railways in America. 1960, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
Knapke, William F. The Railroad Caboose; Its 100 Year History, Legend and Lore. 1968, Golden West Books, San Marino, CA.
Miller, John Anderson. Fares Please! A Popular History of Trolleys, Horse-cars, street-cars, buses, elevateds, and subways. 1960, Dover Publications, NY.
Post, Robert C. Street Railways and the Growth of Los Angeles: Horse, Cable, Electric Lines. 1989, Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. ISBN 0-87095-104-1.
White, John H. Jr. The American Railroad Freight Car. 1993, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD. ISBN 0-8018-4404-5.
White, John H. Jr. The American Railroad Passenger Car. 1978, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD. 2 vols. ISBN 0-8018-2743-4.
White, John H. Jr. A History of the American Locomotive: Its Development, 1830-1880. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N.Y. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
Information about museums, education and interpretation:
Alderson, William T. and Shirley Payne Low. Interpretation of Historic Sites. Second Edition, Rev, 1985, American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN. ISBN 0-910050-73-2.
Burcaw, G. Ellis. Introduction to Museum Work. Second Edition, 1983, American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN. ISBN 0-910050-69-4.
Grinder, Alison L. and McCoy, E. Sue. The Good Guide: A Sourcebook for Interpreters, Docents and Tour Guides. 1985, Ironwood Publishing, Scottsdale, AZ. ISBN 0-932541-00-3.
Tilden, Freeman. Interpreting Our Heritage. Third Edition, 1977, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. ISBN 0-8078-4016-5.
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