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"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
3) Train I ride
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After the death of her drug-addicted mother, thirteen-year-old Rydr makes a journey from Palm Springs, California to Chicago where she'll live with an elderly great-uncle who she's never met and whose ultimate motive in taking her in seems to be to increase his monthly welfare check. During her train ride, alongside her Amtrak escort, Dorothea, she meets other passengers, learns their stories, and finds a sense of family and hope among the strangers...
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Suzy Smith and her friends have gathered again for the relaunch of The Impossible Postal Express. The celebrations don't last long though, before Trollville is rocked by a violent earthquake - the first in the city's history. It's clear something sinister is underfoot. Nevertheless, Suzy's got a very late package that the Impossible Postal Service must deliver - 'come rain, shine, or meteor shower!' And the package might just lead her to some answers....
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Trucker the big rig enjoys bullying other cars on the road thinking they respect him for his size and strength; that is, until he meets the stronger, louder, and nicer Train. Seeing how all the cars adore Train, Trucker wishes he'd go away, but when a crossing signal breaks, Trucker find out that he can use his strength and size to save the other cars.
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Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door, who won't stop staring at him. So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction. It's the tale of a deadly train crash that occurred a hundred years ago in...
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Cousins Patrick and Beth are children traveling with President Lincoln on a train in 1861. When they realize a runaway slave named Sally is on the train with them, they become determined to help her escape the slave catcher who is equally determined to return her to her owner. Even with the help of Lincoln, his son Willie, and the Underground Railroad, the kids have their worked cut out for them as they help Sally make it safely to Canada.
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When the Impossible Postal Express is charged with returning an overdue library book, Suzy Smith looks forward to a nice, simple delivery--just the thing she needs to convince her anxious parents to let her keep her job on the train. So shes less than thrilled to discover that not only is the book alive, it's full of a growing and dangerous magic. Worse still, the world to which it belongs is missing, and Suzy and her friends will have to use all...
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When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
10) South of freedom
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In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalist from Minneapolis, journeyed six thousand miles through the South to report on the reality of everyday life for Blacks in the region. He sought out the hot spots of racial tension―including Columbia, Tennessee, the scene of a 1946 race riot, and Birmingham, Alabama, which he found to be a brutally racist city―and returned to the setting of his more personal trials: McMinnville, Tennessee,...
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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with former Nashville teacher George Boyles, conducted 17 May 1987-22 Nov. 1989 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses Nashville during the first half of the 20th century, including such topics as streetcar lines; city limits; 1918 train wrecks; an airplane accident in West Nashville; airfields; the last horse drawn fire engine; schools; the Tennessee State Fairgrounds; neighborhoods; the 1916...
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