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All Aboard! The Trains That Built America by Mary Elting Soft cover
All Aboard! The Trains That Built America by Mary Elting soft cover
All Aboard!
The Trains That Built America
Mary Elting
Soft cover
128 pages
Copyright 1951 & Revised 1969 March 1st printing
Contents
1When They Were Very New7
2Inventions Small and Large16
3How to Run a Railroad29
4Through the Mountains and Over the Hills37
5The Secret Train47
6Coast to Coast55
7The Golden Spike64
8Dangerous Days70
9Speed Record77
10 Time to Change83
11They Robbed the Train92
12 Pullman and His Palace Cars99
13The Man at the Throttle106
14 Farewell to Steam111
15 Things to Come120
Index 126
They looked like huge monsters. They belched sparks and smoke, ran off the rails, and sometimes even exploded. But everyone wanted to ride behind these fast, new steam locomotives.
Soon railroads connected the big eastern cities, and a mad race was on to link them with the far West. As western rail crews blasted a way east through the high mountains, work gangs from the East laid track westward. Each rail crew strove to lay the most track.
They met in Utah, on May 10, 1869. As the last spikethe Golden Spikewas driven in, everybody cheered. The race to span a continent was won.
This is the story of those exciting dangerous daysthe days of the steam trainswhen fortunes were made and lost, and men fought and died to build America's railroads.
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