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1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at steam locomotive powered historic railroads featured on the PBS series America's historic steam railroads. Includes New Hampshire steam railroads (Mt. Washington Cog Railway, Conway Scenic Railroad, White Mountain Central Railroad), Strasburg Railroad, Cass Scenic Railroad, Illinois Railway Museum.
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1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at steam locomotive powered historic railroads featured on the PBS series America's historic steam railroads. Includes Georgetown Loop Railroad, Grand Canyon Railway, Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow-gauge Railroad, California Western Railroad, and Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journey on the Royal Canadian Pacific is not just a journey through the spectacular and dramatic Canadian landscape, but also a journey back through time in the footsteps of Kings and Queens, back to a more genteel age, a Golden Age of travel, when nothing was too much trouble.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nova investigates how trains can be agents of such tragic destruction by dissecting the most infamous accidents, unraveling how the laws of physics stack the deck against trains, and exploring how creative innovations are bringing about a revival in train tech.
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1941, Chinese railroad worker Ma Yuan organizes a group of freedom fighters to derail the Japanese war effort. Using his extensive knowledge of the train network, he leads his team of unlikely heroes on the most dangerous mission yet.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brewster joins Chuggineers Zack, Fletch and Tyne to build tracks, bridges and tunnels, make repairs, haul heavy loads and more! Featuring new wagons and machines, like the huge yellow Mega Chug Crane, and new friends, including Payce, the tunnel runner from Tootington, and Cormac, the cheeky forklift engine, Wilson, Brewster, Koko, and your own little trainee will discover important lessons about safety, responsibility and teamwork!
9) The general
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved, an engineer sets out to win the Civil War single handedly with the help of his cherished locomotive. The film simltaneously comic and historically accurate in its details.
10) Man of the west
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
13) The Lone Ranger
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the tales that transformed John Reid, a prosecutor, into a Texas ranger and a legend of justice.
14) Riding the rails
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression.
15) To end all wars
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on actual events that happened during World War II when 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the Thailand-Burma Railway - better known to the soldiers as the "Railway of Death". This is the story of a Scottish regiment forced to help construct the infamous railway and how they had to fight to survive and ultimately forgive their brutal captors.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
17) Transsiberian
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roy and Jessie are a couple in a rocky relationship. Following a stay in Beijing they decide to give their relationship one last go and have another adventure together. They decide to travel on the Transsiberian from China to Moscow. The couple discover that the days of the train's glorious luxury has faded and has been replaced with cold steel carriages and indifferent fellow passengers. It is reputed to include drug traffickers. In the company of...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
Series
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Sir Topham Hatt's railway, it is really important for the engines to prove that they are responsible, reliable and really useful. Join Percy as he takes an "up close and personal" tour of Mr. Jolly's Chocolate Factory, help a famous singer make it to a concert on time, and enjoy the sound of Duncan's new whistle. (38 min.).
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad, led by the company's president, Alexander Cassatt, successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and eventually, via the Hell Gate Bridge, to New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. But just fifty-three years after the station's opening, the unthinkable happened: the...
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