Civil War Railroads: A Pictorial Story of the War between the States, 1861-1865

Civil War Railroads: A Pictorial Story of the War between the States, 1861-1865 by Abdill, George B.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780253335364.

With more than 220 black and white photographs from the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and private collections across the country, this is the essential pictorial guide for all those interested in the role of the Iron Horse in the American Civil War. Like all wars, the Civil War was not all gunfire and panic. It was supply and transport, trains and trouble on the line, men in Blue and Gray fighting against almost unbelievable odds with lumbering, woodburning engines.