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Title:

Railroads, tracks across America (DVD) [videorecording] :.

Format:

[videorecording] :.

Edition:

Full screen.

Publisher:

Mill Creek Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

2 videodiscs (756 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Railroads--United States--History.
Historical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

Mill Creek Entertainment.

Notes:

Title from container. Special features include: featurette, America's railroad : the glory years.

Contents:

Opening a new frontier. A great railroad at work -- Desert empire -- The big train -- New horizons -- Troop train -- The passenger train -- This is my railroad -- At this moment -- Big trains rolling -- Mainline USA -- Beef rings the bell -- Safe roads -- 3rd Ave El -- Operation fast freight -- The modern coal burning steam locomotive -- Flight of the century -- The steam locomotive -- Railroads and westward expansion : 1845-1865 -- The nickel plate story -- End of an era -- The California Zephyr -- Return of the General -- The freight train -- Railroad man -- The railroad story -- Son of the pioneer -- Rolling the freight -- Snow on the run -- The power behind the nation -- Clear track ahead! -- A railroad at work -- Last of the giants -- Progress on the rails -- Wheels of steel -- Opening a new frontier.

Summary:

Thirty-six rail industry, War Department, and film industry-produced short films that chronicle the development of the railroad industry in the United States.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)668207783

UPC:

683904509604

Locations:

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

FQPC224 -- Strawberry Point Public Library (Strawberry Point)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)