railroads

Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.

Explains how industrialization prompted the need for long-distance transportation in nineteenth-century America, and looks at the development of the steam locomotive, cross-country railroads, and the steamship.

Presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad, and describes Manifest Destiny and the growing need of an east-west route across the continent, those who worked on both railroads, displacement of Native Americans, and the linking of the rails at Promontory Point, Utah.

Illustrated photographs describe the history of a number of passenger trains around the world including the California Zephyr and the Orient Express.

Detective Hercule Poirot has a wealth of suspects to choose from when a wealthy American is stabbed to death en route to Paris on the Orient Express.

A master criminal plots and carries out the robbery of gold bullion being sent by train from London to Paris in supposedly invulnerable safes.

Describes the development and construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, discussing the concept of Manifest Destiny, the Industrial Revolution, the race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific, and problems that arose from work on the project.

A guide to planning and designing model railroading, and enhancing layout with the latest technology and special effects.

Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.

Analyzes the various disputes that went into making the railroads, and argues that despite aims to promote settlement and commerce along rural railroad lines, people and money continued to flow to the larger cities and rural life lost its attraction.