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Book Synopsis Hear that Train Whistle Blow! by : Milton Meltzer
Download or read book Hear that Train Whistle Blow! written by Milton Meltzer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
Download or read book Ancient Woodland written by Ian Rotherham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though most of us will have enjoyed strolling through beautiful British woodlands, we might not be aware of the ancient – and often complex – origins of our surroundings. From medieval times, woodlands were carefully managed commodities with hotly contested resources: conflicting demands from landowners, the Crown, the peasantry and local and national wood-based industries have all left their marks on today's woodland. Ian D. Rotherham here explains the various uses of British woods and their industries, such as coppicing, charcoal-burning, basket-making and bodging, and helps the reader to seek out the clues to their woodland's past.
Book Synopsis Peacebound Trains by : Haemi Balgassi
Download or read book Peacebound Trains written by Haemi Balgassi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-03-28 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her mother is in the army, Sumi is living with her grandmother, on East Blossom Hill. Perched on her favorite rock, Sumi watches trains wind through the valley below, hears the lonely sound of their whistles piercing the air, and longs for the day her mother will return. The train whistle reminds Sumi's grandmother of a time when a train played an important role in her life too: long ago in Korea, when she and her family escaped Seoul at the last moment before the war came. In poetic language and exquisite paintings, PEACEBOUND TRAINS evokes the landscape and people of Korea and a special grandmother-granddaughter relationship.
Book Synopsis Train Whistle Guitar by : Albert Murray
Download or read book Train Whistle Guitar written by Albert Murray and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this is a coming of age novel. Scooter, growing up in Alabama in the 1920's, learns everything he needs to know from the classroom, the barbershop, and a train-hopping musician who brings a musical touch to the tale.
Book Synopsis Making Trains Sound Like Trains by : Deane H. Ellsworth
Download or read book Making Trains Sound Like Trains written by Deane H. Ellsworth and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the evolution of the sound of a train's horn - here, there, and everywhere. World War II was over and railroads were retiring war-weary steam locomotives in favor of shiny new diesel locomotives. Deane Ellsworth, a young train-crazy lad at the time, wondered if anyone anywhere cared about the steam locomotives' musical train whistles being replaced by the monotone horns. Indeed, a public accustomed to the melodious sounds of steam whistles registered concerns about these new horns as a growing source of noise, confusion, and accidents. As it happened, Ellsworth would go on to develop the K5LA and K3LA airhorns that are used on thousands of locomotives across North America today. In Making Trains Sound Like Trains, he relates the compelling tale - part history, part personal story - of the evolution of the train horn from the postwar period to today. Along the way, readers meet the colorful characters who found themselves involved in the story: loggers, poets, railroaders, industrialists, musicians, and more. Told for the first time, this detailed account combines an entertaining narrative, current and historical photography, and more than eighty field recordings. Railfans, historians, collectors, musicians, and those who smile at the sound of a distant train will not want to miss this book!
Book Synopsis The Train Whistle's Echo by : Phyllis Zauner
Download or read book The Train Whistle's Echo written by Phyllis Zauner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Philip White Publisher :ForeEdge from University Press of New England ISBN 13 :1611686490 Total Pages :341 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Whistle Stop written by Philip White and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Harry Truman was a disappointment to the Democrats, and a godsend to the Republicans. Every attempt to paint Truman with the grace, charm, and grandeur of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a dismal failure: Truman's virtues were simpler, plainer, more direct. The challenges he faced--stirrings of civil rights and southern resentment at home, and communist aggression and brinkmanship abroad--could not have been more critical. By the summer of 1948 the prospects of a second term for Truman looked bleak. Newspapers and popular opinion nationwide had all but anointed as president Thomas Dewey, the Republican New York Governor. Truman could not even be certain of his own party's nomination: the Democrats, still in mourning for FDR, were deeply riven, with Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond leading breakaway Progressive and Dixiecrat factions. Finally, with ingenuity born of desperation, Truman's aides hit upon a plan: get the president in front of as many regular voters as possible, preferably in intimate settings, all across the country. To the surprise of everyone but Harry Truman, it worked. Whistle Stop is the first book of its kind: a micro-history of the summer and fall of 1948 when Truman took to the rails, crisscrossing the country from June right up to Election Day in November. The tour and the campaign culminated with the iconic image of a grinning, victorious Truman holding aloft the famous Chicago Tribune headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman."
Book Synopsis When the Whistle Blows by : Fran Cannon Slayton
Download or read book When the Whistle Blows written by Fran Cannon Slayton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.
Book Synopsis Whistle Posts West by : Mary Trainer
Download or read book Whistle Posts West written by Mary Trainer and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia. They are embedded in the history of Canada as a whole and western Canada in particular, and for generations they were how most people travelled and saw the country. Today, trains get the most attention in the context of tragedy, in the aftermath of rare but catastrophic derailments. However, train stories go beyond these modern-day disaster tales or romantic glimpses into the past. Whistle Posts Westpresents a compelling array of stories that illustrate how and why the railways continue to capture our imaginations. From the heartbreaking to the humorous, from the awe-inspiring to the absurd, this fascinating collection of railway tales from BC, Alberta and Yukon is sure to please.
Book Synopsis Trains Coming Through! by : Stephanie Morgan
Download or read book Trains Coming Through! written by Stephanie Morgan and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most amazing trains are coming through--with big, bright art and fun facts! Chugga, chugga choo--can you hear the train coming through? Take your train-loving toddler on a ride through the wide world of locomotives. From a chuffing, puffing steam train to a cargo-carrying diesel train to a lightning-fast bullet train, your child will meet some of the coolest trains from early days to modern times. Kids will be fascinated by the fun facts, including what each train looked like, where they traveled, and how they zoomed while big, colorful, dynamic train illustrations bring the railroad right into your tiny train rider's room. Trains Coming Through includes: Colorful choo choos--Vibrant, detailed illustrations of each train show moving parts, as well as a range of settings, railroad workers, animals, and more. Rhymes about rails--A fun rhyming refrain introduces kids to a variety of trains, including helper, long-distance, switcher, high and low, and electric trains like subways. Facts on tracks--Did you know the Maglev, the world's fastest locomotive, floats above the tracks? Your child will love learning simple, fun facts about trains through the ages. Step aboard the train to fun and learn about a world of locomotives with your little one.
Book Synopsis Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow by : Dee Brown
Download or read book Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow written by Dee Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's classic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. In February 1854 the first railroad from the East reached the Mississippi; by the end of the nineteenth century five major transcontinental railroads linked the East Coast with the Pacific Ocean and thousands of miles of tracks criss-crossed in the West, a vast and virginal land just a few years before. The story of this extraordinary undertaking is one of breathtaking technological ingenuity, otherwordly idealism, and all-too-wordly greed. The heroes and villains were Irish and Chineselaborers, intrepid engineers, avaricious bankers, stock manipulators, and corrupt politicians. Before it was over more than 155 million acres (one tenth of the country) were given away to the railroad magnates, Indian tribes were decimated, the buffalo were driven from the Great Plains, millions of immigrants were lured from Europe, and a colossal continental nation was built. Woven into this dramatic narrative are the origins of present-day governmental corruption, the first ties between powerful corporations and politicians who "enjoyed the frequent showers of money that fell upon them from railroad stock manipulators, and gave away America." How the people of that time responded to a sense of disillusionment remarkably similar to our own adds a contemporary dimension to this story.
Book Synopsis The Sound of the Whistle by : Steven J. Ericson
Download or read book The Sound of the Whistle written by Steven J. Ericson and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1996 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Ericson has written what promises to be the most thorough study of the Japanese railroad industry in the English language. In addition to the body of research on the industry itself, Ericson has provided an astute analysis of the politics of development and the relationship between state and private enterprise in the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period. He explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations in the course of Japan's modern transformation, and at the same time challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the role of the Japanese government as well as commercial banks in Meiji industrialization. By providing a fresh perspective on the "strong state/weak state" debate through detailed analysis of the 1906-1907 railway nationalization, Ericson's study sheds new light on the Meiji origins of modern Japanese industrial policy and politics, filling a major gap in the available literature on the Meiji political economy.
Download or read book The Train Whistle written by Karen Rowe and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as it is our job to stop, look, and listen at the railroad crossing to hear and respect the power of the locomotive barreling down the track, it is also our job and choice to obey the warning signals in the written Word of God and listen to God's call for our own good!Captivating and intriguing,The Train Whistlewill show you God in a unique and genuine way that will encourage you to stop and listen for his call in your life. You will learn more about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit so that you can fill your cup of knowledge. You will also be encouraged to trust God in a way that will inspire your faith to grow abundantly. Author Karen Rowe, through her truly inspirational book, will show you the Lord on a higher level than you have ever seen. He can be experienced in your life if you will let him in! In a world that sometimes only wonders, Karen shares her story of how God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit made themselves real to her in a special way and how they can make themselves real in your life too. Pick upThe Train Whistletoday to learn more about God and his love for all!
Book Synopsis Clackety Track: Poems about Trains by : Skila Brown
Download or read book Clackety Track: Poems about Trains written by Skila Brown and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queue up for a whistle-stop tour of trains of all kinds, narrated in lively verse and featuring dynamic retro artwork. Rows of grooves, cables, and bars. Graffiti rockin’ out the cars. A badge of rust. A proud oil stain. There’s nothin’ plain about a train. Trains of all shapes and sizes are coming down the track — bullet train, sleeper train, underground train, zoo train, and more. All aboard! Skila Brown’s first-class poems, as varied as the trains themselves, reflect the excitement of train travel, while Jamey Christoph’s vintage-style illustrations provide a wealth of authentic detail to pore over.
Book Synopsis Magic Train Ride by : Sally Crabtree
Download or read book Magic Train Ride written by Sally Crabtree and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.
Book Synopsis My Best Pop-up Noisy Train Book by : DK
Download or read book My Best Pop-up Noisy Train Book written by DK and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting, fun-to-read, noisy board book with flaps and pop-ups, perfect for reading aloud with preschoolers and promoting hands-on, active learning. From steam trains to underground trains to double-decker trains, My Best Pop-up Noisy Train Book covers all the favorites, and an embedded sound button enhances the reading experience on each and every page. Train drivers, passengers, and other featured characters inspire toddlers to talk and focus on the scene, and text and word labels help develop vocabulary and encourage picture-and-word association. With its heavy board format, topical appeal, and lively approach, My Best Pop-up Noisy Train Book is a must-have for train-loving toddlers.
Book Synopsis The Steam Whistle Theatre Company by : Vivian French
Download or read book The Steam Whistle Theatre Company written by Vivian French and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonderful adventures of a family theatre-troupe, touring Victorian England by train - a high-octane, high-drama romp, with a colourful company of characters.Dark and deadly deeds, piratical plots, lost heiresses and poor little orphans - Vivian French conjures up the very spirit of Victorian theatre in a fabulous new novel for middle-grade readers. To avoid financial ruin, the Bottle family's theatre-troupe has left London behind, travelling to the north of England by train. With new audiences to play to, and less competition, they hope to make enough money to pay off their debts back home. But will their plans be foiled by the odious Olio Sleevery? It's time for young actors Rosie and Charlie to save the day, and, with the help of their new friend Edie Boiler, ensure the thunderous success of the company's first performance. A wonderful gallery of eccentric characters and an exuberant plot with a twist at the end ... this is storytelling at its theatrical best!
