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A stormy sundown brought Grant McLain with his battered accordion to Junction City to accept a dangerous assignment from the railroad now building a spur into Montana's mountains. To McLain, disgraced railroad trouble-shooter, this meant a chance at redemption. And so he made passage through a long night, a night that included a railroad holdup and a kidnapping and reached a gunflame climax in a forgotten ghost town high in the Crazies. This is a story of taut suspense encompassed between a sundown and a sunup--Adapted from jacket.
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Adventure, mystery, romance - Mr. Cooper has skillfully blended all three in a novel of the Northwest, where a nation was building civilization almost to the fringe of the Artic circle. Into this dramatic struggle of railroading in the wilds came Kirk Devore, a new recruit. This is his story--Adapted from jacket.
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"A tumultuous story of modern India in the ferment of independence, by the author of Nightrunners of Bengal and The Deceivers"--Jacket.
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The City of Prineville Railway is the only railroad in the United States that has been continuously operated by a municipal government from the time of construction. Rails to the Ochoco Country tells the story of Oregon transportation and the building of the City of Prineville Railway - of the circumstances that led to its construction, the problems encountered in building, the relative success of the first few years, and the long struggle to keep it going during the depression. Later chapters outline the revival of traffic, the sudden lumber boom, and the significance of the railway for the survival and growth of Prineville. It provides a novel chapter in the history of transportation in the United States--Adapted from jacket.
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The story of a family who lived in a small town in Michigan, and, as some of the French multi-volumed novels reveal the world through the life of a provincial village, it has far wider implications than the confines of its locale--Adapted from dust jacket flap.
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Colorado's erstwhile Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway, latterly known as the Cog Road, is the highest scenic mountain railway in the world. Abbott presents the complete story of the railway, from the first proejcted railroad, the construction of the present Cog Road, the early operations, the steam locomotives, and the modern diesel trains. Included are descriptions of sights along the line, special trains, snow problems, the rolling stock, and the workings of the rack system--Adapted from jacket.
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