HISTORY

• Railroad Parts: History for Kids
  "From America to Europe trains history and technology has advanced over several hundred years.
  One of the oldest forms of transportation, but yet to kids a new fast and rare mode of transportation.
  Kids can fill their yearning of knowledge for these powerful machines while building their imagination through the following history and facts..."
  (partsgeek.com)

• America on the Move - (americanhistory.si.edu)
  "Transportation transformed America. Choose from these three interconnected routes to explore how transportation shaped our lives, landscapes, culture, and communities. :
  - Travel across America to visit communities changed by transportation
  - Investigate artifacts and images in the Smithsonian and other collections
  - Explore transportation in American history with historians and curators."
  
  
  
  
• The story of George Stephenson - a railway engineer (BBC) - animated with sound
  
  
  
  
  

• Timeline - Important milestones in English and American railway development (sdrm.org)

• North American Railroads - How this Great System Was Built (mikes.railhistory.railfan.net)
  
  
  
  
  

• The Railroad: A National Controversy (voir l'introduction) - (cr.nps.gov)

• The first Transcontinental or Pacific Railroad (nps.gov) - LIEN MODIFIE

• The Transcontinental Railroad - Utah (group160.org) - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Iron Road - "the story of the building of the first railroad link connecting the East to the West." (PBS)
  
  
  
  
  

• Central Pacific Railroad - histoire (learncalifornia.org)

• How the Transcontinental Railroad Affected Utah (nps.gov) - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  
  
  
  

• Union Pacific Railroad - chronology (infoplease.com)

• Union Pacific Railroad History : Union Pacific Overview and Chronologies / Historical Equipment / Historical Locations / Photos / Museums (uprr.com)

• Histoire de El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Company (home.swbell.net)

• Chinese Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad (cprr.org)

• Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad (cprr.org)

• The 1891 Grain Dealers and Shippers Gazetteer (memoriallibrary.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This Is America, Charlie Brown - The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad -
  "a historical overview of the development of the transcontinental railway and its importance to the growth of America." (teachwithmovies.org)
  
  
  
  
• Railroad Train Robbers (linecamp.com)
  
  

• Steam Engine with Sounds and History (vlcondon)

• Speed Trains of North America - A look at high speed running in the mid 1930's
  (mikes.railhistory.railfan.net)
  
  
  
  
• Ghosts of the Southline (home.swbell.net)
  
  

• CyberTran is a new concept in Mass Transit and High Speed Rail (cybertran.com)
  
  

MAPS

• WANDERLUST - interactive
  "GOOD maps out history's greatest journeys, from Magellan to Kerouac." - with illustrations and explanations
  (awesome.good.is)

  

• Railroad Maps - in the United States (1828 - 1900)
  (memory.loc.gov)

  

• The United States, 1819. (cr.nps.gov)
  
  

• Map of the El Paso & Southwestern Railroad (home.swbell.net)

• Railroad Map - teenagers riding the rails during the Great Depression (PBS)

• Central Pacific Railroad Maps (cprr.org)

• Railroad maps (memory.loc.gov)

• The Train Brain - java simulations (exemple : National Amtrak System with "21 different routes running 48 scheduled trains") - (trainbrain.com)

• Maps of Amtrak Routes & Other Rail Routes (trainweb.com)

PHOTOS

• Historic Rail Photos : Famous Railroad Scenes, Historic Passenger Trains, Streetcars, Trolleys, and Interurbans, Historic Passenger Stations, Union Pacific Steam Program, Southeastern US, Vintage Diesels, etc. (nrhs.com)

• Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum (cprr.org)
  
  

• Steam Engine Pictures (vlcondon)
  
  

INFORMATION

• National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wisconsin (histoire, cartes, illustrations,...) - (nationalrrmuseum.org)
  
  
  
  

• Railroad Slogans (spikesys.com)
  ex : Baltimore and Ohio : "See. Hear. Feel."
  
  
  

LITERATURE

• The Octopus by Frank Norris (tanaya.net)

• The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (teachervision.fen.com)

• What's the Railroad to Me? by Henry David Thoreau (cs.rice.edu)
  

• Folktales (americanfolklore.net) :
  • Casey Jones "Death of a dare devil railman. (Tennessee)" ("The Ballad of Casey Jones is still sung today.")
  • Kate Shelley saves the Train "A brave girl rescues a train when the bridge washes out. (Iowa)"

POEMS

• "What's The Railroad To Me?" by Thoreau (etsu.edu)
  

• Autres Poèmes (members.tripod.com/%7Ep40)

CINEMA

• Railroad movies (davros.org)

• The Fugitive (spikesys.com)
  
  

SONGS

• "I've Been Working on the Railroad" by Bill Basham (popular song in American history) - (contemplator.com)

• Blues train (CD)
  
  
  (amazon.com)
  
  
• Railroad Songs (spikesys.com)
  
  
  
  

ADS and POSTERS

• Railroad Posters (rrhistorical.com)
  
  

CLIPARTS

• Over 45 railroad lettering, railroad romans, alphabets, silhouettes and more font sets. (railfonts.com)

VOCABULARY

• ENCYBERPEDIA - RAILROADS
  
  
  
  
• Railroad Terms Glossary (uprr.com)

• Railroad Nicknames (spikesys.com)
  
  
  

HUMOUR

• Railroad Jokes (spikesys.com)
  ex : "What is the difference between a school teacher and a steam locomotive?
  The school teacher tells you to spit out your gum, while the locomotive says "Choo Choo Choo!"
  

• Word search to print : "Locate the 54 words and phrases that describe the excitement of modern railroading. " (amtrek.net)
  

GAMES to print

• Word search :
  • "Hidden in this puzzle are key words associated with Pacific Railroad history." (nps.gov) - LIEN MODIFIE
  • "Locate the 54 words and phrases that describe the excitement of modern railroading. " (amtrek.net)

 

 

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