Carmichael-Smyth, Robert

The employment of the people and the capital of Great Britain in her own colonies : at the same time assisting emigration, colonization, and penal arrangements, by undertaking the construction of a great national railway between the Atlantic and the Pacif London : W.P. Metchim, 1849. viii, 75 pages, 3 pages of plates 2 folded : ill.

Underwood, Jay

The Inside Man : Why was there no Knighthood for James Isbester? / Jay Underwood.  Elmsdale : Pennydreadful Publishing, 2012. 167 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.

Tennant, Robert Dawson

The Quill-and-Rail catalogue : a bibliographical guide to Canadian railroads Halifax : Tennant Pub. House, 1976. 92 pages.

Pictou Co. Historical Society

The saga of The Samson, Canada's oldest locomotive New Glasgow : Pictou Co. Historical Society, 1968. 4 pages illustrations 24 cm.

Cogswell, Henry H.

Views relative to the construction of a railway from Halifax to Quebec, by the British government : as the most efficient and economical means of promoting the prosperity of the British North American colonies, and securing their continued connection with / by Henry H. Cogswell.  Halifax : Printed at the British North American Office, 1852. 8 pages ; 26 cm.