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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General Americans for years have treated the automobile as a form of freedom. People can now live in the country an...

• Author(s): Earl E. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - General Colonial pioneers began entering the logging and forestry industries in great numbers along t...

• Author(s): Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Transportation This book offers solutions for creating sustainable urban transportation. Topics include histo...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp | Carl J. Stephani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from...

• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - Trucks Welcomed at end of the 19th century as the solution to the severe problem of horse manure in city streets, e...

• Author(s): Federal Highway Administration (U S. ). | Federal Transit Administration (U S ) • Publisher: Claitor's Pub Division • Publisher Imprint: Claitor's Pub Division • BISAC: Public TransportationThis 2015 Status of the Nation's Highways, ...

• Author(s): J. Parker Lamb | David Price | David Bridges • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThis generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of sep...

• Author(s): George W. Green • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General It wasn't very long after the first commercially viable automobiles came on the scene that ambitious engi...

• Author(s): H. Roger Grant • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryIn this illustrated collection, H. Roger Grant, one of America's leading railroad hist...

• Author(s): David M. Young • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryWith the coming of railroads, upstart Chicago quickly became the Midwest's center for ...

• Author(s): Craig R. Semsel • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryAt the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. O...

• Author(s): Thomas L. Karnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General From animal paths to superhighways, transportation has been the backbone of American expansion and growt...

• Author(s): Jonathan Kinghorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - History In 1881, the dynamic Baltimorean Bernard N. Baker established the Atlantic Transport Line...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the go...

• Author(s): Peter Murray Hain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History Organized under the Rapid Transit Act of 1875, the Manhattan Railway Company (commonly known as the Manh...

• Author(s): Philip Mark Plotch • Publisher: Three Hills • Publisher Imprint: Three Hills • BISAC: Public TransportationLast Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Aven...

• Author(s): Jonathan Levine | Joe Grengs | Louis A. Merlin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningLevine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to...

• Author(s): Bruce D. Epperson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General In 1915, the road system in south Florida had changed little since before the Civil War. Travelling fro...

• Author(s): H. Roger Grant • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other ente...

• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motorcycles - History Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes test...

• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralUnlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and par...

• Author(s): H. Roger Grant • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - History"Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Compan...

• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralUnlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and par...

• Author(s): Gene Glendinning • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe first railroad to connect the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes, the Chicag...

• Author(s): Sebastian Ureta • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public TransportationAn examination of how human beings are brought into the planning of complex infrastructure projects, through analysis of a co...

• Author(s): William Patrick Dean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes a...

• Author(s): H. Roger Grant • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it be...

• Author(s): Richard Saunders • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryWhy did American railroads decline from the glory days of the early twentieth centur...

• Author(s): Don L. Hofsommer • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Railroads - History"Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland offers a comprehensive examination of railroads in Iowa from the introducti...

• Author(s): Rush Loving • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryA saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land--America's railroads--The Men Who Lo...

• Author(s): James C. Burke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History In 1833, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to N...

• Author(s): H. Roger Grant • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryLeading railroad historian H. Roger Grant tells the story of the Chicago & North W...

• Author(s): John Heitmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how ...

• Author(s): Curtis D. Anderson | Judy Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History This illustrated history chronicles electric and hybrid cars from the late 19th centur...

• Author(s): Tom Morrison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - General Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that...

• Author(s): Richard Saunders • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryRising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest rail...