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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure" -Library Journal All Aboard-first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated-is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. It will make any trip smoother and more enjoyable with its insightful travel trips and information about how railroads operate. With trains attracting...
4) Trains
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover a whole new way of looking at trains, from the old steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos to super-speeders in Japan that travel at 361 miles per hour. Also see the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles and futuristic railways in the sky.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed...
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
20180405
Language
English
Description
Kids can explore how the railroad shaped the history of the United States and Canada, see 15 beloved cities, and discover some of its most iconic locomotives in this stylishly designed book by Canadian author/illustrator Blanchet.
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Four seasons of railroading across the United States. Steam in the spring starts a saga with eight rail journeys pulling passengers and freight all over the USA from New Mexico to Michigan and Ohio to Owosso. Steam in the summer features six steamers including Colorado's Eureka & Palisade locomotive #4 built in 1875, and the Ohio Central's passenger train gliding through Amish country. Steam in the autumn offers seven excursions throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
11) Trains
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
12) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"May 1870. Crowds throng the Boston station, mesmerized by the mechanical wonder huffing on the rails: the Pullman Hotel Express, the first train to travel from coast to coast. For two young women, strangers until this fateful day, it's the beginning of a journey that will change their lives. Sensitive Louisa dreads the trip, but with limited prospects, she's reluctantly joined the excursion as a governess to a wealthy family. Hattie is traveling...
14) Los trenes
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LCC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Choo Choo! Kids love trains! Especially the old-timey steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos. But what about a super-speeder in Japan that zooms on the track at 361 miles per hour? Or the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles? Or futuristic railways in the sky? In this level 1 reader, young readers will discover a whole new way of looking at trains! National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common...
15) American meteor
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A scrappy Brooklyn orphan-turned-assassin comes of age, befriends Walt Whitman, apprentices under William Henry Jackson and stalks General George Custer as railroad construction advances the nation's Manifest Destiny goals.
Author
Series
Wolf Stockburn novels volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay... Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
17) America by Rail
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008], c2002
Language
English
Description
From Denver to D.C., this DVD collection explores the heart of America's scenic beauty and legendary trains.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive documentary collection is composed of 36 fascinating features chronicling the development of the railroad industry from the first transcontinental line, freight and Pullman cars, to modern diesel engines"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For three hot summer months in 1869, Ernst Mendelssohn-Barthody, the nephew of famed composer Felix Mendelssohn, traveled by train across the United States accompanied by his older cousin. His letters back home to Prussia offer fascinating glimpses of a young, rapidly growing America. Unceasingly annoyed at the Americans’ tendency to spit all the time, the Prussian aristocrats seemingly visited everyone and everywhere: meeting President Grant and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As our wounded nation heals itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, it is once more plunged into sorrow. In one treasonous moment President Abraham Lincoln is dead, and - though his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is quickly caught - the treachery is far from over. A plot is being hatched to kidnap Lincoln's body from the funeral train that will carry the fallen leader through the countryside of mourners, from Washington to its final resting place...