Railroaded: The Transcontinentals And The Making Of Modern America - Richard White. Focuses a bit more on the wheelings and dealings than some histories of the

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals And The Making Of Modern America - Richard White. Focuses a bit more on the wheelings and dealings than some histories of the same thing. Has thesis the transcontinentals caused more harm than good by being built too early. Crofutt's Transcontinental Tourist's Guide, 1872 edition - George Crofutt. A guide from the era of the towns and sights you'd see on the Central Pacific Railroad. Various editions of The Commercial And Financial Chronicle from the 1870s. Lots of railroad financial data. (Google Books has tons of this kinda thing!) The Book: Playing The Percentages In Baseball - Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, Andrew Dolphin. For a website project I'm working on. The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew Mcafee. Theories on what's happening to society now and in the future thanks to the things tech people are doing. The Year's Best Science Fiction, 2013 - Gardner Dozois, ed. I'm writing and submitting sci-fi short stories these days, so keeping up with what's out there.