The Railroad
(2016, original release: 2015)
Nonfiction
eCourse
Details
PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2015
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1198586
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In Process Record
Ride the rails to learn why rail transportation continues to thrive, two centuries after the modern railroad was introduced. Trace the origin of the standard rail gauge used in the U.S., probe the forces a locomotive must overcome to get rolling and then stop, and chart the rise of a revolutionary way of handling cargo: the intermodal container
Title from title frames
Film
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2015
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English