Summary: Meet three women who have embarked on successful careers in railway transportation. This program profiles Brenda Cox, a yard foreman who loads and organizes rail cars for train assembly; Rebecca Mann, a technical officer who tests the structural and mechanical limits of rail cars; and France Robert, an electronics systems technician who performs safety tests on passenger trains. Remarks from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Calexico (Musical group)
Contents: El Picador -- Ballad of Cable Hogue -- Ritual road map -- Fade -- Untitles III -- Sonic wind -- Muleta -- Mid-town -- Service and repair -- Untitled II -- Drenched -- 16 track scratch -- Tres avisos -- Hot rail.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quarterstick Records, Inc. 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CALCooper, Alan.
Summary: Discusses how trains work, how they have developed during their history, how they are used, and how they have changed our lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson Learning 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 625.1 COOBrown, Chester
Summary: Martyr or Madman? The Passionate Rebel History Can't Close The Book On. Is this the future of comics? Respectably penning the dowdy pages of history? Don't be fooled. This is one of the hippest comics going and will be a controversial must-have in 2003. Legendary cartoonist Chester Brown reveals in the dusty closet of Canadian history there are some skeletons that won't stop rattling. To some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.05 BROSiccama, Carolyn.
Summary: Follow the rail trail for an alphabet adventure ... learn sign language letters; go on a scavenger hunt; stroll through the seasons. -- Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BookSurge Publishing 2008
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE SICSummary: During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, French railway workers bravely battled the Nazis on many fronts, from transporting forbidden mail to committing acts of sabotage. They became an invaluable part of the French resistance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BATSummary: Journey through the heart of the American South with its rich tapestry of past and present textured with legendary Southern hospitality. You'll explore the sultry charms of New Orleans before boarding the luxuriously restored Pullman cars of the American Orient Express. You'll enjoy the azalea blossoms of Bellingrath Gardens near Mobile, walk beneath moss-draped oaks on the streets of Savannah,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 AMEHarvey, Michael T.
Summary: A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is gunned down as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Two hours after that, a church becomes the target of a chemical weapons attack. The city of Chicago is under siege, and Michael Kelly, cynical cop turned private investigator, just happens to be on the scene when all hell breaks loose.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARSummary: In the early ₁70s Chris, Liam, and Manny decide to open a bar without any previous ability or concept of what it takes. Through the trials and tribulations of their journey, they come to discover who they are as individuals and what they want in life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ACRRails-to-Trails Conservancy
Summary: "All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Level and accessible, these paths are ideal for a brisk fitness walk, bike ride, or stroll with the family. In Rail-Trails California, the experts from Rails-to-Trails Conservancy present the best of these routes, as well as other multiuse pathways. Many rail-trails are paved and run within view...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.94 CALSummary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Faced with the most serious labor stoppage in its history, the U.S. is hard hit by a strike of railroad men. Reel 2, In Nanking, U.S. Chief of Staff Eisenhower receives a gala welcome as he visits China's leader during his tour of U.S. Far Eastern bases. Later, in Tokyo, he meets General MacArthur and reviews an 8th Army parade.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Pindell, Terry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 PINWakefield, Lawrence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 380.5 WAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History WakefieldFlynn, Rory
Summary: Scapegoated for the death of a baseball fan, a brilliant young narcotics detective with a penchant for noticing elusive clues returns in disgrace to his Boston hometown only to be embroiled in a local investigator's drug-related search for a police-issuegun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Chant, Christopher.
Summary: Although the origins of the train concept are to be found in the Middle Ages, and the use of steam power for locomotives emerged in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, the train really came of age in the Victorian era of the 19th century. At this time there was an explosion of technical ideas, and this combined with greater national wealth and a rapidly changing social and economic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 385 CHASummary: In the early 20th century, blacks moved north in hope of a better life with little more than a prayer and the shirts on their backs. In this program, poet Maya Angelou, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, and a host of other African-Americans recount the story of the migration, of separated families, and of the hardships, prejudice, and struggle for acceptance in the North that resulted in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Rain Parade
Contents: Talking in my sleep -- This can't be today -- I look around -- 1 hour 1/2 ago -- Carolyn's song -- What's she done to your mind -- Look at Merri -- Saturday's asylum -- Kaleidoscope -- Look both ways -- You are my friend -- Prisoners -- Blue -- Broken horse -- No easy way down.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Released by Enigma Records 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RainRae, W. Fraser (William Fraser)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Promontory Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 RAEPeters, Lucas
Summary: "Get inspired and get ready for adventure with the ultimate guide to Europe's best trips! Moon Grand European Journeys: Unforgettable Trips by Road, Rail, Sea & More features: Strategic lists and itineraries for every type of journey: Choose from the bestcities, road trips, rail excursions, outdoor adventures, and more, with ideas for first-timers, solo travelers, and families Can't-miss stops...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: L.M. Wakefield 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 380.5 WAK1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 380 Wakefield
McCommons, James
Summary: During the tumultuous year of 2008 - when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California - journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. Co. 2009