railroads

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Freight yards

1999
Describes how freight yards build freight trains, by sorting the cars onto sidings and coupling them together into new trains.

Freight trains

1999
Describes the history and uses of freight trains and the different types.

Steam, smoke, and steel

back in time with trains
2000
A boy traces the development of railroad engines from coal to steam to diesel as he recounts his family's experience of driving trains over the years.

Railroaded

the transcontinentals and the making of modern America
2011
An exploration of industrialization in America during the Gilded Age, focusing on the transcontinental railroads and contending its development resulted in corruption, opposition, and antimonopoly politics, and comparing its economic influence to the economic downturn of the early twenty-first century.

Historical atlas of the North American railroad

2010
Traces the history of North America's rail ways, describing the origins of the railroad, and presenting nearly four hundred antique railroad maps with historical photographs, brochures, and posters.

Blood, iron, and gold

how the railroads transformed the world
2010
Focuses on the 180-year history of the railways and the social impact they made on the world's population, covering the changes in travel, food supplies, goods markets, safety, and the challenges in engineering and architecture.

Ontario County

the golden age of railroads and baseball.
1999

The railroad

the life story of a technology
2005
Presents a comprehensive history of two hundred years of railroad technology, and provides information on the first locomotives, the transcontinental railroad, steam engines, and more.

Road and rail transportation

2004
Examines the history of transportation around the world, from prehistoric times when there were not only no wheels but no shoes, to electric, hybrid cars, and the Global Positioning System.

Murder on the Orient Express

a Hercule Poirot mystery
2004
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.

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