How to Get Started with Model Trains
Model trains and railroads are both an activity and collecting hobby. The hobby has a long history, with the trains beginning as scale-model promotional tools for the railroad industry before catching on with the general public. Here are a few ... [... more]
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Hartford and Co. track the railroad industry.(The ...
Author: Stephanie D. Esters Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 2 Publication Date: 1997-06-30 Release Date: 2005-07-28 [... more]
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TRAINS MAGAZINE
 TRAINS is the source for accurate news reports on the railroad industry. TRAINS' in depth features cover operations, locomotive power, rolling stock, and routes everything that makes railroading a popular passion. Vivid writing, color photography, and [... more]
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How to Become a Locomotive Engineer
If you're looking for a career in the railroad industry, then becoming a locomotive engineer is the job for you. Life as a locomotive engineer is exciting and fulfilling. Here are some steps to take to help you become a locomotive engineer. Meet ... [... more]
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Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Railroad Industry
Did you know that Cornelius Vanderbilt started his own business when he was sixteen years old? Or that at the time of his death he employed more people than any other company in the United States? Vanderbilt was a self-made man who made a big impact on [... more]
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Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America s first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry today. The driving of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the [... more]
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End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the ...
A must read for Amtrak reformers: End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America's Passenger Trains is the best analysis of the efforts to reform Amtrak ever to be put into printed form. The fact that the book is written by [... more]
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Hearts on the Wind (Five Star Expressions)
Hearts on the Wind: Ingrid Johansson lives with her parents and siblings on a farm in northern Minnesota. While she obediently performs her daily chores, Ingrid yearns for something more. She wants to speak better English, and most of all, she wants to [... more]
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Efficiency of the railroad industry: a frontier ...
Author: Richard Grabowski Author: Seyed Mehdian Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 12 Publication Date: 1990-03-22 Release Date: 2005-07-28 [... more]
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Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American ...
Amazon.com Review: The progress represented by the railroad is often taken as an entirely positive trend in American history, but in Passage to Union, historian Sarah H. Gordon shows how the railroad's transformation of American life also exacted some [... more]
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Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's ...
Amazon.com Review: The epicenter of the American economy since the Civil War and the birthplace of modern capitalism, New York City played a significant role in transforming "a small nation of scattered farms into the world's leading economic power,& [... more]
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Leaders Count: The Story of the Bnsf Railway
Pure Gold...I drained two highlighters in this book: No serious student of the railroad industry can go without reading this book. I have also recently read (and recommended) Rush Loving's "The Men Who Loved Trains." As good as Loving's book [... more]
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