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  2. Great American Railroad Journeys - Wikipedia

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    Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and broadcast on BBC Two. [1] Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Portillo travels across the United States and Canada primarily by train, though at times using other forms of transportation where necessary.

  3. The Great Locomotive Chase - Wikipedia

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    In April 1862, Cpl. William Pittenger and several other soldiers, including William Campbell are posted outside Nashville under orders from General Mitchell.Andrews rides in to speak to Mitchell, who assigns him the mission of hijacking a train behind Confederate lines and destroying the bridges along the Western and Atlantic Railroad in order to delay reinforcements against Mitchell's planned ...

  4. Great Locomotive Chase - Wikipedia

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    The train's conductor, William Allen Fuller, and two other men, chased the stolen train, first on foot, then by a handcar belonging to a work crew shortly north of Big Shanty. Locomotives of the time normally averaged 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), with short bursts of speed of about 20 miles per hour (32 km/h).

  5. The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam train at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals.

  6. Jackson's operations against the B&O Railroad (1861)

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    For the immediate time being, "B&O trains continued to run, with many interruptions and only with the consent of Virginia." [3] Colonel Jackson realized that Harper's Ferry held not only important arms production factories, but was a choke-hold on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and key telegraph trunk lines connecting Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. to ...

  7. The General (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    Western & Atlantic Railroad #3 General is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive built in 1855 by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey for the Western & Atlantic Railroad, best known as the engine stolen by Union spies in the Great Locomotive Chase, an attempt to cripple the Confederate rail network during the American Civil War.

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  9. Tracks Ahead - Wikipedia

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    Germany's ICE Trains (March 22, 1992) Mt. Washington Cog Railway (March 29, 1992) San Diego Light Rail (April 5, 1992) Cass Scenic Railroad (April 12, 1992) BART (April 19, 1992) Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch (April 26, 1992) Jungfrau Railroad (May 3, 1992) Amtrak Beech Grove (May 10, 1992) Grand Canyon Railway (May 17, 1992)