Summary: 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 GRESummary: "The Big Books of Trains is a colorful compendium of amazing trains and locomotives that will entertain and inform children for hours. Learn all about powerful steam engines, hanging monorails, and superfast bullet trains. Featuring stunning illustrations of locomotives and fun facts, The Big Books of Trains is the ultimate first trains book, "--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Anderson, Steven C.
Summary: An illustrated presentation of the familiar folk song about railroad life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDBone, Emily.
Summary: Presents information about trains and railroads, including the history of railroads, different types of trains, and famous trains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Solomon, Brian
Summary: "Illustrated history of the North American Railroad industry's mergers and acquisitions illustrated with historical photography and 50 specially commissioned maps and line diagrams charting that evolution"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 SOLJennison, 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: 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 GRELaughlin, Rosemary.
Summary: Describes the events leading up to and occurring during the lockout and strike of railroad workers working for the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, and its impact upon American labor unions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 LAUPopp, David (David A.)
Summary: "If you'd like to see the entire construction process of a great model railroad step by step -- planning, benchwork, track, wiring, scenery, structures, and detailing -- follow along with the creation of the New Haven Railroad in Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley."--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kalmbach Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 625.19 POPSummary: Chronicles the history of locomotive development, including photographs of over four hundred types of trains and seven of the world's most memorable railroad journeys.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 385.09 TRAIN SMISedgwick, 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...
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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 SEDBurkhardt, D. C. Jesse
Summary: With 145 color photographs and maps, Northbound Tracks Across Michigan and Wisconsin presents a visual history of contemporary changes to the railroad networks across these two states in the Great Lakes region. Michigan-born photojournalist, D. C. Jesse Burkhardt, carries readers on a journey that chronicles rail operations in Wisconsin and Michigan. The primary focus extends from the 1970s to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09775 BURHannum, James S.
Summary: "This book complements and augments the store of knowledge currently available on the subject of Michigan's abandoned railroads. By design, the work is limited to Michigan's pine belt, in the northern half of the Lower Peninsula. In the late 1800s, logging railroads were densely concentrated in that locale. Restricting the scope of the book to that region results in a volume of manageable size....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 HANMindheim, Lance
Summary: "This new hands-on book will show how to use tools and elements such as track, turnouts, crossings and scenic elements to paint the "canvas". The reader will learn how to blend the track plan itself with structures and scenery in a realistic manner along with a basic understanding of how real railroads work to help them narrow the layout-design focus, leading to a workable plan for the space a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalmbach Media 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 625.19 MINCaravantes, 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 MOMMarsh, Nicholas A.
Summary: A biography about James F. Joy whose aim was to secure one unbroken line of uniform guage from Boston to Galveston.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nicholas A. March 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 JOHMeints, Graydon M.
Summary: In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. An engaging and accessible text, the book describes the long-awaited and often-troubled advent of the railroad in the state, the building of which shifted from private to public efforts and back again, amid tumultuous social, business, and political...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0977 MEINagelhout, Ryan
Summary: One of the most exciting aspects of creating worlds in the popular game of Minecraft is constructing railroads to carry your character around the towns you build. Rails and carts can also be used to make transportation systems in mines, but also roller-coasters. This volume shows readers how railroads constructed in Minecraft can display engineering concepts used in the real world. Using the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Vassallo, Peter
Summary: "This all-new how-to book is perfect for anyone getting started in model railroading or looking to build a simple, compact layout. Build Your First Layout features the small, easy to build Northspur & Tiburon Railroad from experienced modeler and Model Railroader author Peter Vassallo. You ll get step-by-step instructions and all the basic techniques needed to build an operating layout...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kalmbach Media 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 625.19 VASBurkhardt, D. C. Jesse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rolling Dreams Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 BURWolmar, Christian.
Summary: In this beautifully illustrated book, renowned transportation journalist Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious pioneers who developed the railways that would dominate the globe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 WOLGrant, 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