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New Jersey Railroading Books
Here are some books that will provide much more
detail that I can provide here:
The entries in bold are key books on the topics
that they discuss.
 | Iron Railroads of Northern New Jersey,
by Larry Lowenthal |
| Lackawanna Railroad in Northwest New
Jersey, by Larry Lowenthal |
| Rails up the Raritan "A History of
the Raritan River Railroad", by Frederick W. Deibert |
| The Gladstone Branch, by Tom Nemeth |
| The Morristown & Erie Railway, by Bob
Pennisi |
| Railroading in New Jersey: Collection by
John T. Cunningham |
| Railroad Atlas of North America
"North East U.S.A", by Mike Walker |
| The Rock-a-bye Baby "A history of
the Rockaway Valley Railroad", by Thomas T. Taber,
III |
| The Lehigh & New England Railroad: A
Color Reprint, by Douglas E. Lilly |
| Railroads of New Jersey, by Richard Hyer
& John Zee |
| Lehigh Valley: In Color, by Robert Yanosey |
| Susquehanna: New York Susquehanna &
Western Railroad: John Krause and Ed Crist |
| The Delaware Lackawanna & Western
Railroad in the Twentieth Century, by Thomas Townsend
Taber & Thomas Townsend Taber III.
Note: In my opinion, this three-volume set
is the standard by which all Railroad history books should be
judged.
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| Erie: Steam – Locomotives and Trains
Photographed in Northern New Jersey – 1933 –
1937, by Robert K. Durham. |
| Lehigh Valley Railroad: The New York
Division, by Mike Bednar |
| The Lackawanna Story, Robert J. Casey &
W.A.S Douglas |
| Lackawanna Railroad: Shortest Rail Route
between New York and Buffalo and the West, by Edward F.
Gardner |
| Lackawanna Railroad Trackside, by Mike Del
Vecchio |
| Lackawanna Railroad: In Color, David R.
Sutherland |
| Lehigh Valley – 3: In Color, by
Jeremy F. Plant & Richard T. Stienbrenner |
| Jersey Central Lines – In Color
Volume 2, by William J. Brennan |
| Jersey Central Line – In Color, by
William J. Brennan |
| Anthracite County Color, by Gerard Bernet
Not truly a New Jersey topic, but all the
roads in here did operate in NJ, and I like the pictures.
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| The Reading Railroad: History of a Coal
Age Empire Volume 1: The Nineteenth Century, by James L.
Holton. |
| The Reading Railroad: History of a Coal
Age Empire Volume 2: The Twentieth Century, by James L.
Holton.
These two books make up the definitive
history of the Reading. Not strong on pictures, but the best
written history of the Reading.
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| A history of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
"The Route of the Black Diamond", by Robert F.
Archer
Similar to the Holton books on the Reading,
not strong on pictures, but the best written history of the
Lehigh Valley.
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| Erie Lackawanna Death of an American
Railroad, 1938-1992, by H. Roger Grant
The only real written history of the Erie
Lackawanna. This book is primarily around the business end.
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| The Amtrak Story, by Frank N. Wilner |
| A Chronology of the Belvidere Delaware
Railroad and the communities through which if operated,
by Warren F. Lee & Cathernine T. Lee. |
| The Fallen Colossus, The Great Crash of
the Penn Central & The Crisis of Corporate Giants, by
Robert Sobel. |
| No Way to Run a Railroad: The Untold Story
of the Penn Central Crisis, by Stephen Salsbury. |
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