Start with high-confidence railroad photo books books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Seymour Simon's Book of Trains
Seymour Simon
Some Vernacular Railroad Photographs
Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
A Field Guide to Trains of North America
Gerald L. Foster
The Story of American Railroads
Stewart H. Holbrook
Nothing Like It in the World
Stephen E. Ambrose
Kingfisher Readers L1: Trains
Thea Feldman
Epic Adventures
Sam Sedgman
The Illus Encyclopedia of Trucks
Peter J. Davies
History Comics: the Transcontinental Railroad
Andy Hirsch
Last Train to Paradise
Les Standiford
Locomotive
Brian Floca
Trains (national Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1)
Amy Shields
The LEGO Trains Book
Holger Matthes
Trains
Lynn Curlee
LEGO Train Projects
Charles Pritchett
Lonely Planet How Trains Work 1st Ed.
Clive Gifford
Lonely Planet Epic Train Trips of the World
Lonely Planet
