The Coming of the Train
Author | : Brian A. Donelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Brian A. Donelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James McCommons |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-11-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1603582592 |
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Author | : Charlotte Voake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2000-03 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780744572964 |
The authors seeks to capture all the excitement and suspense of waiting on a footbridge high above a railway track. William, Chloe and their dad wait, watch and listen. And then, in the distance is a little speck, coming nearer and nearer. Here comes the train
Author | : Mike Vago |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0761187162 |
***A 2016 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) winner You’ve never seen a book like this before! It’s the story of a train moving across the American landscape—but with an actual three-dimensional miniature train that loops up and down and across each spread, traveling along an interior track from front to back without ever leaving the pages. Move the red steam engine out of the depot and to the front of the book, where the sun is just coming up over a bay, and then take a journey across wide plains, up mountains and down hills, into a city at night with its beacons of light—and finally, back to the rail yard. The panoramic landscapes are filled with marvelous details that young children will delight in discovering, and the sweet, simple rhyming language pulls the story along and will be happily repeated when it’s time to start the journey all over again. All aboard!
Author | : Ace Landers |
Publisher | : Cartwheel Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780545079624 |
Trains travel from town to town delivering passengers and important cargo to train stations across the country.
Author | : Roger Priddy |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2003-10-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780312491864 |
Shows pictures of a variety of trains.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.) |
ISBN | : 9780982009901 |
Author | : Peter Sis |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2007-08-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0060578408 |
Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed author, artist, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. He also studied at the Royal College of Art in London. His picture books for children include Play, Mozart, Play!; the Caldecott Honor Books Tibet: Through the Red Box and Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei; the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Tree of Life: Charles Darwin; and several popular books inspired by his own children, such as Madlenka and Fire Truck. He has also illustrated bestselling books written by Jack Prelutsky, among them Scranimals and The Dragons are Singing Tonight.
Author | : Larry Barkdull |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590382905 |
When his human companion dies and is sent East for burial, a sheepdog known as Shep faithfully meets every train and checks every passenger, certain that his master will return. Ben Colby, a thirteen-year old boy in need of a friend, turns to Shep as he struggles to understand a looming and mysterious adult world.