Summary: 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 SMIBurkhardt, 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 BURMeints, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0977 MEIWarrick, Robert I.
Summary: "The Ann Arbor Railroad was as much a steamship line as a railroad. This text rich volume follows Michigan's most distinctive railroad from beginning to end with stunning photographs that will surprise readers."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 WARHarter, Jim.
Summary: The airport terminal, the most important building type in the world of transportation, is also the site of the most ambitious and innovative achievements in 20th-century architecture. From the timber runway used during the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to modern glass-and-steel structures, from military buildings housing fighter planes to public spaces for both travel and shopping,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 HARHenderson, Ray
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. 1925
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2 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILPlant, 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 PLAStraus, Roger.
Summary: "An evocative and stunning photographic tribute to America's railroad stations. For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad station or depot was the communal hub of every American town that could boast of train service. There, citizens gathered before they sent loved ones off to college, marriage, or war-and where they greeted them on their return. Most of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2011