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Mountain Rails of Old

Mountain Rails of Old
Author: Elaine L Orr
Publisher: Elaine Orr
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Mountain Rails of Old Family History Mystery Series Book 3 An abandoned cottage and its long-gone occupants pique Digger’s interest when she and her friend Marty visit to take photographs for a news story. Then Uncle Benjamin makes a huge discovery nearby. What happened to Samantha and her eight-year-old daughter, and how many ghosts does Digger need in her life? If it hadn’t been for a growling raccoon, she would not have badgered enough people to find out, and she might not have looked for a former station on the Underground Railroad.


Montana Rails

Montana Rails
Author: Dale W. Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 143966983X

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For nearly 150 years, railroads have been transforming the Montana landscape, from Continental Divide peaks to windswept prairies. Steel rails arrived on May 9, 1880, when the narrow-gauge Utah & Northern reached Monida Pass south of Butte. At the zenith of rail line construction during the 1890s and early 20th century, all major transcontinental railroads crisscrossed Montana: the Union Pacific; Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q); Great Northern; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (Milwaukee Road); and Soo Line. Through the years, many original railroads evolved into the Burlington Northern Railroad, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), and Montana Rail Link with unique short lines along the way. Though routes and operations have changed, the scenery of Big Sky Country remains the same. Take a journey across Montana rails, from the mountains to the prairies.


Mountain Rails of Old

Mountain Rails of Old
Author: Elaine L. Orr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948070799

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Mountain Rails of Old, third book in the Family History Mystery Series. Digger's mountain hides some aspects of its past. Rumor says it hosted a stop on the Underground Railroad, and it boasts remains of the first schoolhouse west of Cumberland. She never paid much attention to the abandoned cottage and its long-gone occupants until she accompanied her friend Marty, who wanted to photograph it for a potential news story. Everything changed when Uncle Benjamin made a huge discovery nearby. What really happened to Samantha and her ten-year old daughter fifteen years ago? If it hadn't been for a growling raccoon, Digger might not have tried to find out. Her friend Holly doesn't like the ancestors Digger found for her, and Marty thinks she's distanced herself rather than level with him about how she feels. She doesn't realize that her search for the waystation for escaping slaves will cross paths with efforts to bring Samantha home. And that path doesn't lead to a safe haven. Join Digger, Marty, and Uncle Benjamin as they sometimes operate at cross-purposes to solve old mysteries and unlock the mountain's secrets. Western Maryland at its elusive best.


The Old Patagonian Express

The Old Patagonian Express
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0547524005

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The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.


Smoky Mountain Railways

Smoky Mountain Railways
Author: Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467144592

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The Great Smoky Mountains were a remote and inaccessible place with no major highways or railroads until well after the Civil War. Using first enslaved and later convict labor, the Western North Carolina Railroad and Murphy Branch connected the mountains with the remainder of the state by 1891. The railroad brought commerce and tourism, and tourists and rail buffs continue to come to Bryson City to experience travel by steam train on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. The history of this line is a story like no other. It is a tale filled with tragedy, heroism, brains, blood, sweat, tears, nitroglycerin and humor. Local authors Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott tell the story of a line that refused to die.


Long Steel Rail

Long Steel Rail
Author: Norm Cohen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252068812

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Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.


Rails Over the Mountains

Rails Over the Mountains
Author: Ron Brown
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2016-07-09
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1459733584

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Explore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to the creative engineering that created spiral bridges and soaring trestles. Relive this time through a trip on one of the many steam trains, visit a railway museum, or walk the trails where trains used to rumble.