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Books on: trains historical

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Journal Articles on: trains historical

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Magazine Articles on: trains historical

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Newspaper Articles on: trains historical

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    Next Stop - Adventure Historical Museum's Train Exhibit Thrills Young and Old Alike
    Newspaper article by Melynda Findlay; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 10, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...County Illinois Historical Museums model train...HO gauge model train, which covers...and maintains the trains. The exhibit is more than just trains and train-related vehicles...Evelyn, visited the train exhibit as part...County Illinois Historical Museum is just...movements of the trains, she remembered...
     
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    Student's Campaign for More Trains on Sunday; Fight with Rail Bosses
    Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), September 15, 2008
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...There is no Coryton train at all on a Sunday...This is the only train to run through Heath...Monday-to-Saturday trains are every 15 minutes...trains on a Sunday for historical reasons concerning...unit, said: "Sunday train services are much reduced...Saturday services for historical reasons, where demand...the week." Arriva Trains Wales head of franchise...
     
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    Trains, Trees and Trestles Hobbyists Take Their Model Railroads out of the House and into the Garden
    Newspaper article by Deborah Donovan; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 25, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the hobby by the romance of historical trains like the Denver South Park...electrical kind, not the train type. "I have always been...In the Rusch garden five trains climb hills, travel around...was young. He still runs a train inside his house with a Department...German company, made G- scale trains (approximately one-half...
     
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    Not Your Average Model Trains
    Newspaper article by Eileen O. Daday; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 5, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...devoted to large-scale trains featured in backyard...European-made G-scale trains. "But once these came...hooked." Schwartzs red train, a replica of the Rhaetian...Northern Illinois Lego Train Club, whose members...from learning about historical background on prototype trains, to seeing the new...
     
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    Amtrak Cancels Mail on Passenger Trains; Cites Interference with Operations in Its Yards
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 31, 2004
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    United States. Postal Service
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...our bottom line, make the trains more efficient," Amtrak...Service has used passenger trains to carry mail since 1831...interference with passenger train operations" compelled Amtraks...freight rail cars to passenger trains. Amtrak also has to divert...service might represent a historical precedent, but would not...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: trains historical

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    Railroad
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...to truck, ship, or train travel, multilevel automobile-rack train cars, computerized...carriers that allow trains to carry fully loaded...intercity passenger trains per day on 21,000...America. Railroads of historical importance include the...known as the "bullet train," in 1964. The French...
     
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    Wyoming , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...followed paths of these wagon trains when the Union Pacific laid...activities to include bank and train robberies as well as cattle...rev. ed. 1979); The Historical Encyclopedia of Wyoming, pub. by the Wyoming Historical Institute (2 vol., 1970...
     
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    New Mexico
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...monuments and Chaco Culture National Historical Park (see National Parks and Monuments...Trail was being traveled by the wagon trains of American traders. In 1841 a group...1982); R. V. Jackson, New Mexico Historical and Biographical Index (1984); J...
     
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    Paris , City, France
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...also the hub of the national rail system, with high-speed trains connecting it to most major European cities. Points of Interest...the new Bibliotheque nationale (opened 1998) is there. The historical nucleus of Paris is the Ile de la Cite, a small boat-shaped...
     
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    Oregon , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Caves National Monument, Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks, and McLoughlin House National Historic Site (see National...Settlement and Statehood In 1842 and 1843 enormous wagon trains began the "great migration" westward over the Oregon Trail...
     

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