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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,104 ratings
    • Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life....

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    • By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In the 24 richly illustrated lectures of How Railways Transformed the World, you’ll experience the amazing world and impact of railways, from the early 19th century to today’s futuristic trains, including extensive material on the pleasure and appeal of rail travel today.

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    • The History of Trains in America
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line—the first American railroad—in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel....

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    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Del Roy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 584 ratings
    • Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....

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    • The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
    • By: Jack Kelly
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history....

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    • The Untold Story of the Railroad War that Made the West
    • By: John Sedgwick
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its gorgeous scenery, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century....

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    • A 45,000-Mile Adventure
    • By: Monisha Rajesh
    • Narrated by: Monisha Rajesh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • A witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in an audiobook that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen....

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    • How the Railways Made Britain
    • By: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
    • By: Gary Krist
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the story of two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, hit by a devastating avalanche....

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    • Traveling Through French History by Train
    • By: Ina Caro
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites listeners on 25 one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through 700 years of French history....

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    • Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries....

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    • The Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads
    • By: Michael Bezilla
    • Narrated by: Josh Albert
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late 19th century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals....

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    • The Secret History Beneath the Streets
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to penetrate history, and Ackroyd's book is filled with the stories unique to this underworld....

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    • A New History of the Railways in Britain
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Christian Wolmar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Fire & Steam celebrates the vision of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide railway to emerge....

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    • The Railway and the Rise of Canada
    • By: Stephen Bown
    • Narrated by: Wayne Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nation....

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    • Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
    • By: Ted Conover
    • Narrated by: Ted Conover
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Conover chronicles his impressions of their lives in this fascinating piece of first-hand reporting that becomes a thoughtful story of self-discovery....

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    • Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival (Railroads Past and Present)
    • By: Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, Eugene E. Harmon
    • Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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