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41) Last passenger
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle the sociopathic driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
42) Railroad tigers
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1941, Chinese railroad worker Ma Yuan organizes a group of freedom fighters to derail the Japanese war effort. Using his extensive knowledge of the train network, he leads his team of unlikely heroes on the most dangerous mission yet.
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest of their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault. Amidst the turmoil in Pullman, Fred is asked to act as a local delegate to the national convention of the American Railway Union, but when the delegates vote in favor of a nationwide boycott of the famous Pullman sleeping cars, Olivia wonders if Fred will ever be able to return to...
Publisher
Skyriver Films
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Completed in 1900 with British financing, Canadian contracting and American engineering, the White Pass & Yukon Route was the engineering marvel of its time. You will see all the points of interest on the line, learn about the WP & YR's construction and its gold rush origins through rare historical footage and photos, ride the WP & YR's pride and joy, its 1947 Baldwin steam locomotive, enjoy a rare opportunity to see the completely restored Rotary...
47) A hope beyond
Author
Series
Ribbons of steel volume 2
Language
English
Description
With the loss of her first true love, Carolina Adams finds life at the family plantation nearly unbearable. Desperate to escape, she moves to Baltimore to become a nanny to Victoria, a little girl whose mother has died. After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia Adams, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin immerses himself in work for the B&O Railroad, the other passin in his life besides Carolina. But when a shocking business proposal is...
48) Promontory
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Mormon settlement and railroad construction meet when the railroads meet at Promontory Point, Utah.
50) The railroad
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the development of the railroad in North America and its influence on the settling of the West during the nineteenth century.
51) Trains
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Trains are used to carry everything from cargo and animals to people. But how do trains move? Who drives them? Learn more about these important machines inside." -- supplied by publisher.
52) Lego loco
Publisher
LEGO Media International
Pub. Date
p1998
Language
English
Description
Players can command own train system with unlimited track building potential.
Publisher
TM Books & Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A video tour of Railroads on parade, the 5,000 square-foot space located in Pottersville, NY that houses a collection of 5 separate model railroad exhibits with more than fifty electronically controlled trains and exhibit scenes of the Station, the 100-foot long Hell Gate Bridge, the 1939 World's Fair, the NYC subway, Prince Edward Island, the Manhattan skyline of the 1940s, the Catskills, a drive-in movie theater, a traveling carnival and ice-skating...
54) Dragon's gate
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
55) Transsiberian
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
DVD format.
Language
English
Description
Roy and Jessie are a couple in a rocky relationship. Following a stay in Beijing they decide to give their relationship one last go and have another adventure together. They decide to travel on the Transsiberian from China to Moscow. The couple discover that the days of the train's glorious luxury has faded and has been replaced with cold steel carriages and indifferent fellow passengers. It is reputed to include drug traffickers. In the company of...
Author
Publisher
White Birch Printing
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"For people connected to the railroad in some way, "The Life and Times of a Railroad Engineer" is just the ticket to give you the perspective of a railroad engineer with many years of service. A born storyteller with a memory for detail, he decided to write the book after he retired with 42 years of railroading under his belt. He has gathered facts and figures and illustrations as well as stories of some of the people who worked on the railroad with...
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Description
Olivia Mott finds herself juggling two jobs: her assistant chef position at Hotel Florence and her undercover work for the Pullman Rail Car Company. Olivia thinks the suggestions she relays to Pullman's town manager are being used to improve conditions for workers and save the company money, but is something much more sinister happening behind the scenes? Several months have passed since Lady Charlotte fled to Chicago, leaving her infant son in Olivia's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad headed westward from Nebraska, another company, the Central Pacific, pushed eastward from California. Their goal was to meet somewhere in between, forming a single railway line that would bridge the continent. That historic meeting took place in May 1869 in northern Utah, and photographer Andrew J. Russell was there to document the historic event. His work resulted in one of the most important photos...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended up dead -- with a full head of steam, Wolf Stockburn makes...
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