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Railroads: Railroad Lecture Series

Contains databases available at the Linda Hall Library, databases freely available outside the library, samples of books in the library catalog, web resources and the railroad lecture series.

Breaching Mountains, Crossing Deserts: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

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