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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 34 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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    • 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 1,091 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: Clive Cussler
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: An Isaac Bell Adventure, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,264 ratings
    • Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency....

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    • The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 589 ratings
    • On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....

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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 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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    • How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
    • By: Charles R. Morris
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....

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    • Blackstone Legacy, Book 2
    • By: Elizabeth Camden
    • Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
    • Series: Blackstone Legacy, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Natalia Blackstone is a rarity in Gilded Age America. As a trusted analyst for her father's bank, she is helping finance the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. From her office in New York City, Natalia relies on a charming Russian aristocrat to oversee the construction of the railroad....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Sam Mendes
    • Series: The Dickens Collection
    • Length: 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • From the greatest novelist of the Victorian era comes a ghostly short story, now reimagined in 3D sound. A lone narrator meets a railway worker who is confined to a cold, gloomy station in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance....

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    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Frank Muller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia....

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    • By: Keith C. Blackmore
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • In the spring of 1903, locomotive 311, known as the Majestic, carried more than one hundred passengers toward a tunnel through the underbelly of the Canadian Rockies. But then the mouth of the tunnel swallowed the 311 whole, and the train—and everyone on it—was never seen again.

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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 139 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Louis L'Amour
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 615 ratings
    • Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station - and a mystery....

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    • The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Christian Wolmar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert on trains and transportation....

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    • The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom....

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    • A Belle Meade Plantation Novel, Book 3
    • By: Tamera Alexander
    • Narrated by: Melba Sibrel
    • Series: A Belle Meade Plantation Novel, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 342 ratings
    • Can a railroad man and a Southern belle turned teacher find a way to work together to achieve their dreams in the new reality of the post-Civil War South? Find out....

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    • By: C.J. Petit
    • Narrated by: Michael Alan White
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • As Carl sat astride his roan gelding and stared at Pine Bluffs, he knew that his days of punching cattle were over. The long drives across the West were dying now that the railroads had crisscrossed the Plains.

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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 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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