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Product Description: From the very first passenger train to roll down the tracks in 1825 to the advent of today’s high-speed trains, the railroad has been and is still one of the most vital forces in civilization. Focusing on American railroad history but touching on other countries, award-winning author Milton Meltzer shows how something as ubiquitous as the railroad is, in fact, a force that changed the world...read more

Hardcover:

9780375815638, titled "Hear That Train Whistle Blow: How the Railroad Changed the World" | Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780375829222 | Reprint edition (Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 2005), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: 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.

Library:

9780375915635 | Random House Childrens Books, October 26, 2004, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: 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.

Prebinding:

9781439575598 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 19, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: From the very first passenger train to roll down the tracks in 1825 to the advent of today’s high-speed trains, the railroad has been and is still one of the most vital forces in civilization.
9781417689521, titled "Hear That Train Whistle Blow! How the Railroad Changed the World" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: 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.

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Charts the growth of auto and rail travel in the 1920s
By Fred L. Israel (editor), National Geographic Society (other contributor) and Arthur Meier Schlesinger (editor)

Library:

9780791050989 | Chelsea House Pub, February 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Articles originally published in 'National Geographic' chart the expansion of travel by automobile and railroad in the 1920s and its effects on American society.

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