Summary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MAJGrant, H. Roger
Summary: Looks at the impact and importance of railroads and railroad travel on cities and towns throughout the United States, from 1830 through 1930.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 GRACaravantes, Peggy
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 CARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMWinkowski, Fred.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 625.26 WINCarpenter, Richard C
Summary: The fifth volume of A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 provides a comprehensive record of the railroad system as it existed in Iowa and Minnesota in 1946—the apex of America's post-war rail network, when steam locomotives still dominated and passenger trains stopped at towns all along the rail lines. Eventually railroad mergers, the automobile, and the airplane changed what many...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2003
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 385 CARCarpenter, Richard C.
Summary: The third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio. These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network, where east-west transcontinental lines crossed north-south inter-regional lines. Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 385 CARCarpenter, Richard.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2003
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 385 CARFloca, Brian.
Summary: Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 385.0973 FLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FLOSummary: Singer Johnny Cash rides the rails to tell, through narration and song, how the railroad has contributed to the building of America from 1830 to the present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JOHNiemann, Linda.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 NIESummary: Video scenes of steam locomotives and excursion trains set the stage for the fond memories of Americans who lived this bygone era of rail travel. Historic films and photographs capture nostalgic glimpses of small town depots and big-city terminals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Delaney Communications 1996
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DREMencken, August
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.33 MENPlant, Jeremy F.
Summary: "A fond look back at the C&O in Virginia and West Virginia from the last years of steam to the end of the Chessie System era."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 PLANielsen, Waldo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Old Bottle Magazine 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 NIESedgwick, John
Summary: John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 SEDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 385.0979 SEDWegman, Mark
Summary: Over the course of 15 years, author Mark Wegman researched original railroad company drawings, records, and even paint chips to render 180 color profiles, front view, top views, and interior layouts representing the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives and the passenger cars of more than 40 of the most celebrated golden-age "name" trains across the nation. Wegman's drawings are accompanied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crestline, an imprint of Book Sales, a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2014
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 WEGJosephson, Matthew
Contents: Part one. The national scene: the national character -- What the young men dream -- Of empire-builders -- The winning of the west -- Two captains of industry -- The fight for Erie -- Grandeurs and miseries of empire-building -- Part two. Rising from the ruins -- Mephistopheles -- Caesar Borgia in California -- Giants of the northwest -- Certain industrialists arose -- Morgan and the railways --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.0973 JODSummary: Catch an unforgettable glimpse into America's storied past as you ride the rails on these rolling museums of steam and steel. Focus on the history and mechanics of the engines themselves and a bit of local history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 GREAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: The account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 385 AMBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Transport AmbroseJennison, Christopher
Summary: Vintage magazine covers from Railroad, The New Yorker, and The Saturday Evening Post and original Lionel Train advertisements dating from the 1950s are only a few of the nostalgia-filled images, many never before published, that illustrate this Yuletide anthology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 JENSummary: Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: Catch an unforgettable glimpse into America's storied past as you ride the rails on these rolling museums of steam and steel. Focus on the history and mechanics of the engines themselves and a bit of local history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2002