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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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: 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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    • 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 461 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 613 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 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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    • The Epic of the Wheat Series, Book 1
    • By: Frank Norris
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Series: The Epic of the Wheat, Book 1
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Like the tentacles of an octopus, the railroad in California reached out across the state, grasping everything of value in the state. Based on the bloody Mussel Slough Tragedy - a conflict between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad - The Octopus is a stunning novel....

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • By: T.J. Stiles
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,430 ratings
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

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    • 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 133 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 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 99 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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