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1) Train dreams
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011
From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. The U.S. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. At its peak the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line
Series
Film Movement volume 15, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Bulgarian
Description
"Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of leva [Bulgarian currency] on the train tracks. He decides to turn the money over to the police, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov's old watch, a family relic. Here starts his desperate struggle to recover both his old watch and his dignity."--Publisher's website....
Author
Series
Ribbons of steel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina's stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsome Kiernan, an Irish railroad worker. But will the upper-class Baldwins even consider him as a suitor for their daughter? And when tensions rise among the workers, can James stop a destructive plan before it's...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
Author
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now"--
"The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 178 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (color) ; 24 cm, unfolded to 24 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of poetry by Paisley Rekdal"--
"In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation--an unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful, necessary connection between the railroad's completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943). Carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read "Liberty,...
9) Railroaders
Author
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of American railroading, focusing on the building of the transcontinental railroad and the daily life and hardships of the construction workers
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