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Railroad engineer : Olive Dennis / by Baillie, Kaye,author.(CARDINAL)850936; Stephani, Tanja,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references."When Olive Dennis was young, girls were expected to be sewing, cooking, and cleaning. But Olive was busy imagining, designing, and building everything from a wooden dollhouse to a model streetcar with working parts. When she grew up, Olive continued to defy expectations, earning a civil engineering degree and becoming the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's first female engineer. Her genius for inventing improvements based on her keen observations of passengers' needs and problems led her to the assignment of a lifetime: designing a luxury train that would change rail travel forever."
Subjects: Biographies.; Picture books.; Dennis, Olive, 1885-1957; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; Passenger trains; Railroad engineers; Women engineers;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Roads of doubt [large print] / by Raine, William MacLeod,1871-1954,author.(CARDINAL)347702;
"In the early 1920s Jarvis Elliott is trying to build a railroad through Gateway Pass in the Rockies while his daughter Joyce pursues a romance with Ordway, her father's enemy. After Jarvis is injured, Bob Hallock, a clean cut young engineer working, shoulders the responsibilities for completing the project and Joyce joins the struggle against Ordway's underhanded methods"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Western fiction.; Railroad fiction.; Railroad engineers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Making track [large print]. by Sutton, Stack.(CARDINAL)517607;
Creed Weatherall had once saved Dallas Mason's life, but now there was a great deal at stake for both of them and neither man was about to back down. Like their competing railroads, they were reaching a point where in order for one to survive, the other had to be driven down in defeat.
Subjects: Large print books.; Western fiction.; Railroad engineering;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Railroad engineers & airplane pilots : what do they do? by Greene, Carla.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Railway journeys : the vanishing age of steam [videorecording].
Explores the history and popularity of the steam engine and steam-powered trains from the 1920s to the 1970s.DVDs, Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Steam-engines.; Railroad trains.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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James Millholland and early railroad engineering / by White, John H.,1933-(CARDINAL)287900;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Millholland, James, 1812-1875.; Railroad engineering.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Steam trains / by Winkowski, Fred.(CARDINAL)349004; Fulerkson, Charles.;
Subjects: Railroad trains.; Steam-engines;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The life and times of a railroad engineer / by Hoekstra, Bud.;
For people connected to the railroad in some way, "The Life and Times of a Railroad Engineer" is just the ticket to give you the perspective of a railroad engineer with many years of service. A born storyteller with a memory for detail, he decided to write the book after he retired with 42 years of railroading under his belt. He has gathered facts and figures and illustrations as well as stories of some of the people who worked on the railroad with him. This book is for the person who wants to know what it is like to sit up front in that prestigious seat in the cab of a diesel locomotive."--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Biographies.; Hoekstra, Bud.; Railroad engineering; Railroad engineers; Railroads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The railway revolution; George and Robert Stephenson. / by Rolt, L. T. C.,1910-1974.(CARDINAL)151969;
Subjects: Biographies.; Stephenson, George, 1781-1848.; Stephenson, Robert, 1803-1859.; Railroad engineers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Charlie the Choo-Choo / by Evans, Beryl,1947-author.(CARDINAL)414865;
Replaced by a diesel locomotive and relegated to the rail yard, Charlie the steam locomotive teams up with Engineer Bill to prove he still has "zip and zowie."
Subjects: Fiction.; Locomotive engineers; Railroad trains;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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