| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 104.1

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Encyclopedia of North American Railroads

Edited by William D. Middleton, George M. Smerk, and Roberta L. Diehl

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 1281. Illustrations, references, appendices, index. $99.95.)

An assemblage of North America's best railroad historians has produced an exceptionally fine reference source on the industry they (and millions around the world) love. The encyclopedia includes more than one thousand pages of alphabetical entries on railroad companies, railroad executives, railroad technology and engineering, construction, management, labor, operations, locomotives and cars, railroad builders and suppliers, railroad business practices, railroad regulation and political economy, and more. Entries on railroad signaling and operations are extensive enough to show a complete novice how it all works. The emphasis on North America allows for extensive entries on Canada and Mexico, as well as smaller ones on Central America and the Caribbean, although the encyclopedia is primarily U.S.-oriented.

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