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Author Phillips, Lance.

Title Yonder comes the train / by Lance Phillips.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Galahad Books, 1986.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections  385 P544y 1986    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 395 pages : illustrations ; 35 cm
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Note Cover title: Yonder comes the train: the story of the Iron Horse and some of the roads it travelled.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-390) and index.
Contents 1. In the beginning -- 2. The steam locomotive comes to America -- 3. Pioneer railroads -- 4. The bugle blows -- 5. Rails toward the sunset -- 6. Innovations and developments -- 7. More innovations -- 8. With the throttle back -- 9. Lure and lore -- 10. Into the yonder she returns.
Summary An illustrated history of the steam locomotive in America, tracing the growth of early and later great railroads and describing outstanding events, personalities, innovations, and engines.
Subject Railroads -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
Locomotives -- History -- Pictorial works.
Illustrated books -- United States -- History.
Illustrated books. (OCoLC)fst00967377
Locomotives. (OCoLC)fst01001752
Railroads. (OCoLC)fst01088711
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Railroads -- History.
Locomotives -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
ISBN 1555211089 : $19.98
9781555211080

 
    
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