Railroad Transportation Engineering: Historical

John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Kathleen Waters Sander How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation.Chartered in 1827 as the country's first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation's great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O's beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time.

Baltimore Civil Engineering History by Dennis, Bernard G. & Fenton, Matthew C. (eds)

The economic theory of the location of railways; an analysis of the conditions controlling the laying out of railways to effect the most judicious expenditure of capital by Wellington, Arthur Mellen