The History of Railroads; compiled by David A Norris: from the Publishers of History Magazine; 84pp; Full Color; 8.5x11; Item # MM017-PDF; PDF downloadable eBook, Downloads are available immediately upon placing order.

This book is also available in printed format.

• Includes:
• The Transcontinental Railroad
• Travel on the Orient Express
• The Great Locomotive Chase
• The Canadian Pacific Railway
• The Panama Railroad
• Civil War Train Travel
• World War 1 Trains
• Train Robberies
• Owney the Mail Dog
• Casey Jones and Old ‘97
• A Look at Pullman Cars
• And More!

• The Fabled Orient Express; Leaving platform two for adventure, glamour, and excitement
• Linked by the Golden Spike; Building the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads
• Scandal, Rebellion, Mountains & Muskeg; The Canadian Pacific Railroad overcame natural and man-made obstacles to cross North America
• The 1855 Panama Railroad; The first transcontinental railroad built across North America
• From Purgatory to Pampering: Pullman Cars; The quest for rail passenger comfort
• Stamping, Sorting and Steam; Moving the mail by rail
• From Grand Central to the Not-so-Grand; A panorama of two centuries of great changes in railroad history
• Trench Railways of World War I; Miniature trains were a deadly serious business from 1914-1918
• The Great Locomotive Chase; A look at the Andrews Raid of 1862
• Owney the Mail Dog; The mascot of the mail trains
• Robberies on the Rails! This newfangled transportation brought a new kind of crime to the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Casey Jones and Old 97; Popular songs turned two railroad disasters into American folk legends
• Taking the Cars; the first large-scale use of railroads to transfer armies and military supplies in war

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