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1) Trains
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This engaging book teaches readers about trains. It describes how trains work, the different parts of the vehicle, and its uses. The book includes colorful pictures, informative captions, a table of contents, and an index. This Focus Readers series is at the Scout level, aligned to reading levels of grades K–1 and interest levels of grades K–1
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Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Big trains, small trains, short trains, long trains... which do you like best? Follow fifty colourful trains as they whizz along tracks and through tunnels up, down, around and back again! Can you find your favourite? Full of spotting and counting fun.
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When you're in love, you often dream of the thing you love, even if it's a train. You dream of "trains speeding through the desert night, thousands of stars shining bright." And you wonder, will others see the beauty you see, the freedom you feel, or the excitement of winning a race, when you are on a train?
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When British Railways (BR) was privatised in April 1994 a series of passenger franchises was created that included services on both the East Coast Main Line (ECML) and competing West Coast Main Line (WCML) routes. The WCML franchise was won by Virgin Trains and it quickly set about improving service by introducing a range of standard trainsets to replace the variety of traction fleets that it had inherited. It also became a constant critic of Government...
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The Soo Line's Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada—USA tourist trains.
Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US...
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Named one of the "75 People You Should Know" by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry's titans. An iconic and innovative executive, McClellan participated in the creation of both Amtrak and Conrail and worked for the Norfolk Southern, the New York Central, US Railway Association, and the Federal Railroad Administration. My Life with Trains combines a world-class photographer's love of railroading...
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This remarkable colour album of 1950s and 1960s images covers non-express trains working in and out of London termini, along with a selection of feeder services operating in roughly a 40 mile radius of the Capital. The trains featured are therefore semi-fast passenger, suburban passenger and freights. The advantage of casting the net beyond services in and out of London itself is to increase the variety of locomotive types and diesel/electric units...
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"Beth Rutledge and her mother's one chance to escape Beth's tyrannical father is a wagon train heading west. Wagon train scout Jake Holt senses the secretive Beth is running from something and finds a new hope for his future in protecting her. Can they risk trusting each other with their lives--and their hearts--with danger threatening their every step?"--
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Best of California volume 3
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Pat visits the Burbank Airport, The Railway Museum and the Peterson car museum.
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' Forget Westminster bust-ups and PMQs, some of the key events that have shaped modern British politics happened not in the cloisters of parliament or Downing Street's many corridors of power, but in car parks, village halls and seaside resorts where the mundane have played host to the mighty. From Pitt the Younger's Putney Heath duel to finding Margaret Thatcher a voice coach on a train, Harold Wilson's 'Scilly' season holidays to John Major's...
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The bestselling chronicler of human stupidity shares tales of unruly passengers, dumb drivers, and the people who put the "loco" in locomotive . . .
New York Times-bestselling author Leland Gregory presents a riotous collection of the unbelievably bizarre events and behavior that result when people strap themselves in for a ride. Gregory, who has so entertainingly highlighted humanity's stupidity in the areas of crime, business, love, politics,...
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A study of the specialty train, including its history, development, and operation beginning at the end of the nineteenth century.
In many ways this title, featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international passengers to and from trans-Atlantic steamers, is an extension of luxury railway travel. But that's not the full story as it encapsulates more than 125 years of independent...
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"Briar Creek Public Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular archivist conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey...
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A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land-America's railroads-The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who have run the railroads, both those who set about grabbing power and big salaries for themselves, and others who truly loved the industry. As a journalist and associate editor of Fortune magazine who covered the demise of Penn Central and the creation of Conrail, Rush Loving often had a front-row seat to...
19) One big open sky
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Meet Train, a friendly diesel locomotive, as he enjoys a day pulling freight by the sea. But when an unexpected visitor pops up, an adventure begins when the unlikely duo become friends against all odds! Train Meets a New Friend features stories and artwork created by a kid, for kids. Along with two stories about the lovable characters "Train" and "Whale," readers will get a glimpse into the spunky personality of a 7-year old artist who is eager to...