Railroad Transportation

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    • Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival (Railroads Past and Present)
    • By: Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, Eugene E. Harmon
    • Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership....

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    • A 45,000-Mile Adventure
    • By: Monisha Rajesh
    • Narrated by: Monisha Rajesh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • A witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in an audiobook that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen....

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    • Railroads Past and Present
    • By: H. Roger Grant
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," 1830-1930....

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    • Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries....

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    • Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
    • By: Tom Zoellner
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion....

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    • Railroads Past and Present
    • By: H. Roger Grant
    • Narrated by: Neil Holmes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Transportation is the unsung hero in America's story. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of everyday life....

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    • On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
    • By: Tim Parks
    • Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life - by riding its trains.

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    • Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
    • By: Ted Conover
    • Narrated by: Ted Conover
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Conover chronicles his impressions of their lives in this fascinating piece of first-hand reporting that becomes a thoughtful story of self-discovery....

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    • Traveling Through French History by Train
    • By: Ina Caro
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites listeners on 25 one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through 700 years of French history....

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    • And More Old Time Railroad Stories, with Introductions and Editorial Notes by the Author
    • By: Michael Gillespie
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The late 19th Century and early 20th Century marked an era of significant transition, for what form of transportation could compete with the ...

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    • How the Railways Made Britain
    • By: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation....

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    • Memoir of a Railroader (Railroads Past and Present)
    • By: Jim McClellan
    • Narrated by: Shane Browning
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Named one of the "75 People You Should Know" by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry’s titans....

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    • A New History of the Railways in Britain
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Christian Wolmar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Fire & Steam celebrates the vision of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide railway to emerge....

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    • By: Andrew Martin
    • Narrated by: Andrew Martin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were 'rationalised' and gradually shut down. Rural communities were isolated without ready access to the main lines, and steam trains slowly gave way to diesel and electric traction....

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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863 - 1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage....

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    • By: Rosie Schaap
    • Narrated by: Rosie Schaap
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars....

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    • A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
    • By: David Greene
    • Narrated by: David Greene
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Set against the wintery landscape of Siberia, Greene’s lively travel narrative offers a glimpse into the soul of 20th century Russia: how its people remember their history and look forward to the future....

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    • The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
    • By: J. P. Daughton
    • Narrated by: William DeMeritt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire....

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