For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on railroads in the West.
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See also guide in this series on New Mexico--History
All Aboard: the Railroad in American Life
(Riegel)
"All in a Day--Cumbres & Toltec Scenic
Railroad," New Mexico Magazine,
68:7 (July 1990)
American Narrow Gauge Railroads (Hilton)
"Chama Snow Busting," New Mexico Magazine,
77:4 (April 1999)
"The Chili Line: Saga of the Squat
Iron Horse from Antonito to Santa Fe,"
(Hemp, Bill),
Ayer
y Hoy en Taos, no. 26 (Winter 1998)
"The Chili Line from Antonito to Tres Piedras
(Comstock,
John), Ayer y
Hoy en Taos, no.
2 (Winter 1986)
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad: the
Historic Preservation Study
Dream Tracks: the Railroad and the American
Indian
"The El Paso and Northeastern Railroad's
Economic Impact on Central
New Mexico," (Seligmann,
G. L., Jr.), New Mexico Historical Review, 61:3 (July 1986)
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
History of the Western Railroads (Eliot,
Jane)
Jemez Mountains Railroads, Santa Fe National
Forest
New Mexico and the Santa Fe Railway
New Mexico’s Railroads (Myrick)
Overland Route: Union Pacific Railroad
Railroads and Railroad Towns in New Mexico
Railroaders (Time-Life
series)
Rio Grande Memories (Norwood,
John)
Story of the Western Railroads (Riegel)
To Santa Fe by Narrow Gauge
Ticket to Toltec
Transportation Frontier: Trans-Mississippi
West, 1865-1890