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  • How Railways Transformed the World Audiobook By Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses cover art

    • How Railways Transformed the World

    • 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 11 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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  • Nothing Like It in the World Audiobook By Stephen E. Ambrose cover art

    • Nothing Like It in the World

    • 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 1,099 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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  • Last Train to Paradise Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Last Train to Paradise

    • 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 581 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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  • From the River to the Sea Audiobook By John Sedgwick cover art

    • From the River to the Sea

    • 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 37 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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  • Railroaded Audiobook By Richard White cover art

    • Railroaded

    • 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 141 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 Edge of Anarchy Audiobook By Jack Kelly cover art

    • The Edge of Anarchy

    • 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 100 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 White Cascade Audiobook By Gary Krist cover art

    • The White Cascade

    • 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 134 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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  • The Great Railroad Revolution Audiobook By Christian Wolmar cover art

    • The Great Railroad Revolution

    • 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 5 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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  • Italian Ways Audiobook By Tim Parks cover art

    • Italian Ways

    • On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
    • By: Tim Parks
    • Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life - by riding its trains.

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  • Paris to the Past Audiobook By Ina Caro cover art

    • Paris to the Past

    • 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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  • Iron Empires Audiobook By Michael Hiltzik cover art

    • Iron Empires

    • 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 33 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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  • Full Steam Ahead Audiobook By Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman cover art

    • Full Steam Ahead

    • 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 30 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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  • Train Audiobook By Tom Zoellner cover art

    • Train

    • Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
    • By: Tom Zoellner
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion....

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  • Midnight in Siberia Audiobook By David Greene cover art

    • Midnight in Siberia

    • A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
    • By: David Greene
    • Narrated by: David Greene
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Set against the wintery landscape of Siberia, Greene’s lively travel narrative offers a glimpse into the soul of 20th century Russia: how its people remember their history and look forward to the future....

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  • The Peking Express Audiobook By James M. Zimmerman cover art

    • The Peking Express

    • The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
    • By: James M. Zimmerman
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for, The Peking Express is the incredible, long-forgotten story of a hostage crisis that shocked China and the West....

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  • Stealing the General Audiobook By Russell S. Bonds cover art

    • Stealing the General

    • The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor
    • By: Russell S. Bonds
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 556 ratings
    • On April 12, 1862, a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and 19 infantry volunteers infiltrated Georgia and stole a steam engine....

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  • Dominion Audiobook By Stephen Bown cover art

    • Dominion

    • 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 7 ratings

    • A thrilling new account of the engineering triumph that created a nation....

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  • Rolling Nowhere Audiobook By Ted Conover cover art

    • Rolling Nowhere

    • 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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  • Railways and the Raj Audiobook By Christian Wolmar cover art

    • Railways and the Raj

    • How the Age of Steam Transformed India
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. There were vast riches to be exploited and vast numbers of people to be subjugated....

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  • Rival Rails Audiobook By Walter R. Borneman cover art

    • Rival Rails

    • The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Walter R. Borneman
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 09-28-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, which marked the completion of the country's first transcontinental railroad, was only the beginning of the race for railroad dominance....

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