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2) Trains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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All aboard! There are all different kinds of trains that accomplish various tasks. Speed along with a bullet train, go underground with a subway train, or hop aboard a freight train as it transports goods.
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"Craig Sanders has done an excellent job of research . . . his treatment is as comprehensive as anyone could reasonably wish for, and solidly based. In addition, he succeeds in making it all clear as well as any human can. He also manages to inject enough humor and human interest to keep the reader moving." -Herbert H. Harwood, author of The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story and Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
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America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line-the first American railroad-in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging...
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CRS report volume R47260
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Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2022-
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English
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English
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1918. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds...
10) Trains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes different types of trains, their parts, the history of building railroad systems within the United States, and the future of trains
17) Caboose
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Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers
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1997.
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English
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CRS report volume RL34117
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2019-
Language
English
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