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 JENCarpenter, 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 CARSummary: 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 legend of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James is the bold bandit whose name became synonymous with train hold-ups, daylight bank heists and every other daredevil crime associated with the lawless West of the 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JESCarpenter, 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 CARLaughlin, 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...
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 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09775 BURSummary: Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the tales that transformed John Reid, a prosecutor, into a Texas ranger and a legend of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2013
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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...
Format: text
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 JOHLindeen, Mary.
Summary: "Simple text and supportive full-color photographs introduce young readers to trains. Intended for kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2007