| The Story of the Santa Fe by Glenn Danford Bradley Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press Boston, 1920 Reprinted: Omni Publications Palmdale, Calif., 1995 | Northern Pacific Railway; Supersteam Era, 1925-1945 By Robert L. Frey and Lorenz P. Schrenk Golden West Books, 1985 ISBN: 0-87095-092-4 Out of print--available in used book market only |
| Santa Fe: The Railroad that Built an Empire by James Marshall Random House, Inc. New York, N.Y., 1945 | Steel Trails to Santa Fe by L. L. Waters University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kan., 1950 |
| History of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway by Keith L. Bryant, Jr. University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London, 1982 First printing: Macmillan New York, N.Y. 1974 | The Locomotives of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System by Sylvan R. Wood The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. Baker Library, Harvard Business School Boston, Mass., 1948 |
| Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail by E. D. Worley Southwest Railroad Historical Society Dallas, Texas, 1965 | Arid Domain: The Santa Fe Railway and Its Western Land Grants by William S. Greever Stanford University Press Stanford, Calif., 1954 |
| Burlington Northern and Its Heritage by Steve Glischinski Andover Junction Publications Andover, N.J., 1992 | Burlington Northern Diesel Locomotives by Paul D. Schneider Kalmbach Publishing Company Waukesha, Wis., 1993 |
| The Great Northern Railway by Charles and Dorothy Wood Pacific Fast Mail Edmonds, Wash., 1979 | The Great Northern Railway: A History by Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy, Roy V. Scott and Don L. Hofsommer Harvard Business School Press Boston, Mass., 1988 |
| The Northern Pacific Railroad and the Selling of the West by Sig Mickelson The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College Sioux Falls, S.D., 1993 | Northern Pacific Railway; Diesel Era, 1945-1970 By Robert L. Frey and Lorenz P. Schrenk Golden West Books, 1988 ISBN: 0-870950-102-5 Second printing currently available |
| The Northern Pacific Railway of McGee and Nixon By Richard Green, Warren McGee and Ron Nixon Northwest Short Line, 1985 Hardcover | Dining Car Line to the Pacific: An Illustrated History of the Northern Pacific Railway's "Famously Good" Food, with 150 Authentic Recipes By William A. McKenzie Minnesota Historical Society, 1990 Hardcover and paperback |
| The Life of James J. Hill, Volumes I and II by Richard C. Overton University of Texas Press Austin, Texas, 1953 | James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest by Albro Martin, W. Thomas White Minnesota Historical Society/Borealis Books October 1991 |
| James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest The Oklahoma Western Biographies, Vol. 12 by Michael P. Malone University of Oklahoma Press March 1997 | Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines by Richard C. Overton Alfred A. Knopf New York, N.Y., 1965 |
| Everywhere West: The Burlington Route by Patrick C. Dorin Superior Publishing Seattle, Wash., 1976 | Gulf to the Rockies: The Heritage of the FW&D and C&S by Richard C. Overton University of Texas Press Austin, Texas, 1953 |