The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

Handbook #40 1969	Handbook #40 1969, reprint 1982	cover only A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad John Hoyt Williams 1988	cover only 1990
cover only The Iron Trail to the Golden Spike John J. Stewart 1994	cover only Rebirth of the Jupiter and the 119 1994	cover only Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad David Howard Bain 1999	cover only Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Stephen E. Ambrose 2000
cover only Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads Dee Brown 1977, 2001	cover only 2009	cover only Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad Walter R. Borneman 2010