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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Paul Theroux  Synopsis Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina....
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Writing the Rails: Train Adventures by the World's Best-Loved Writers
by Edward C Goodman Publisher Comments Rich and inviting, this collection of 101 train travel stories, both fact and fiction, by renowned writers from around the world and throughout history, is a feast for the armchair vagabond. The stories, essays, historic accounts, poetry, songs and other...
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Great American Rail Journeys
by John Grant Publisher Comments Great American Rail Journeys takes you on location to eight of North America's most scenic and historically rich landscapes. Each of the rail adventures profiled in this volume - a counterpart to the highly praised public television programs - celebrates...
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Tourist Trains Guidebook (Tourist Trains)
by Staff Of Trains Magazine Publisher Comments Kids love trains, grown-ups love trains, and everybody loves a good train museum. But how do you find those great train destinations? With "Tourist Trains Guidebook," of course! This unique travel reference is both a guidebook, with detailed information...
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Platform Souls: The Trainspotter As 20th-Century Hero
by Nicholas Whittaker Synopsis An insider's perspective on the world of the trainspotter. A variety of topics, such as station and locomotive design, lesser-known titles in the Ian Allan catalogue, dieselization, Beeching's legacy and the ramifications of privatization, are covered....
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Trains of Discovery
by Alfred Runte Publisher Comments This updated look at railroads and the national parks includes practical information about touring parks by train, offering an alternate solution to the growing traffic congestion in the parks....
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Passenger Rail: The Transportation Alternative
by Walton W Loevy Publisher Comments For more than a half century, the American Dream has included owning an automobile for personal mobility. However, by the turn of the 21st century, the one-person, one-car approach to transportation has resulted in severe automobile traffic congestion in...
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We Took the Train (Railroads in America)
by H Roger Grant Book News Annotation A collection of personal accounts of travel by train from the 1830s to the Amtrak era by obscure travellers to such celebrities as Dickens, R.L. Stevenson, Christopher Morley. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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All Aboard the Canadian Rockies by Train
by David Mitchell Publisher Comments This is the exciting and epic story, starting in 1885, of the construction and the operation of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways. Richly illustrated photographs of the scenic Canadian Rockies that rise along the tracks as well as a...
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Trails Begin Where Rails End
by Albert Manchester Publisher Comments Covers the end of railroad lines to early motoring in Arizona and New Mexico....
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All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Buff
by Rogers Whitaker Book News Annotation Wonderful, nostalgic, worldwide train rides with Frimbo (aka Whitaker). The New Yorker first published many of these tales; 33 appeared in the Grossman edition of 1974; 19 are uncollected; all are witty, articulate. The buff will appreciate the...
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Booked on the Morning Train: A Journey Through America
by George Scheer Publisher Comments In a time of super-saver airfares and midair traffic jams, George Scheer rode Amtrak's embattled passenger fleet for six weeks and 14,000 miles, along nearly all the storied overland train routes, rediscovering what remained of a part of the American...
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Luxury trains from the Orient Express to the TGV
by George Behrend TOC The origins of trains de luxe -- The train de luxe comes to Europe -- Europe's first train de luxe: the Brighton Belle -- The Orient Express -- The Rome Express and the Palatino -- The Nord Express and the Audacious Trans-Siberian Express -- Trains of...
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Making tracks :an American rail odyssey
by Terry Pindell Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-386) and index....
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Big Red Train Ride
by Eric Newby
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Great Railway Journeys of the World
by K Westcott Jones
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Train Journeys of the World
by Barnes & Noble
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Pacific Tourist the 1884 Illustrated Tra
by Frederick Shearer
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Orient Express the Life & Times of the W
by E H Cookridge
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Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
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