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Author: Corinne Fenton
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2016-11-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0763680974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBob the Railway Dog was everyone's friend in the early days of the Australian railroad. Based on a real dog who rode the rails in the late nineteenth century.
Author: Sanford Tousey
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 53
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bob Withers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780738552835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBob and Betty learn about trains when the railroad opens up a line behind their garden fence.
Author: Lauren Forte
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780689868306
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Publisher: Carolwood Pacific LLC
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Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0975858424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert D. Dobson
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the story of the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad that spent over $1,200,000 during the period of 1889 to 1995, to build a 36 mile railroad that never ran a train. It includes several detailed maps of the "grade" as it exists today from Champion, Michigan, all the way to Huron Bay on Lake Superior, near Skanee, and east of L'Anse. The author, from Negaunee, has walked most of the grade apart from the present road, and shares his experiences. The railroad was sold, and almost totally dismantled in 1901. The railroad had purchased two 120 ton Steam Locomotives, 2-4-0's, built a long 60' rock cut through the 1900' Huron Bay Summit, plus many other cuts as well, and built a large 112 pocket ore boat loading dock, and laid the track..
Author: Bob Wodnik
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780874223699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKObserving its busy stations today, it is difficult to imagine how close Sound Transit came to folding. By 1996 much of Puget Sound was choking on congestion, so it was a joyous day for many when voters in three counties approved a ten-year, $3.9 billion mass transit plan. But the agency's light rail estimates came in a billion dollars over budget and extended the project three years. A torrent of angry opposition followed. One by one, administrators resigned. Then Joni Earl stepped in. The new executive director rallied team members, secured a crucial $500 million federal grant, publicly confronted critics, and presented a realistic revised budget. She and her team navigated lawsuits, complex demands made by impacted locations, and expanding expectations of outlying communities. Earl, with support from Link executive director Ahmad Fazel and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, delivered Sound Transit's promised light rail system in July 2009. A resounding success, its trains and buses annu
Author: Bob Young
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781467969956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNear the end of the American Civil War, the Confederate Treasury gives Special Agent Patrick Graham a vital mission. His main assignment: stop a counterfeit ring headed by the notorious Adolphus Roads in Augusta, Georgia. Then the Confederate treasury arrives by railroad with Union raiders in hot pursuit! Unfortunately, Patrick finds more than he bargains for on this mission -- a cunning nemesis, a treasure that must be protected, and a beautiful distraction he can't resist.
