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25) Mailing May
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket, May is mailed to her grandmother's town and rides the train in the mail car.
27) Freight trains
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and pictures introduce the reader to freight trains and terms associated with them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. From self—made entrepreneurs such as the Union Pacific's Thomas...
30) Good though!
Author
Publisher
Philo
Pub. Date
p1997.
Language
English
Description
"This record is a performance of songs about railroads and bums, both of which I've been very close to for much of my life"--notes.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental...
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental...
Author
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Transportation in central Oregon is still by stagecoach and freight wagon, but there's a movement afoot for a people's railroad. Now competing railroad barons James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman both set about building a line there. Their front men, Lee Dawes and Mike Quinn, have always competed for rights-of-way - and women. Attracted to Deborah Haig, Dawes is nettled to see her in an intimate meeting with Quinn. But there's something else about...
36) The iron horse
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A young man pursues his murdered father's dream of the first transcontinental railroad, overcoming impossible odds, greedy officials, crooked Indians, and his father's killer to unite the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railways.
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