Steel rails and iron horses
Subtitle: science and technology transform continent
By: by Carl Barna, Richard Brook, and Elizabeth Rieben
Contributors: Brook, Richard; Rieben, Elizabeth; United States. Bureau of Land Management; United States. Bureau of Land Management. Environmental Education & Volunteers Group; United States. Department of the Interior; United States. Federal Railroad Administration; Association of American Railroads; National Science Teachers Association
Publisher: [U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management]
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Study and teaching; Transportation; Environmental education; Activity programs; Railroads; Locomotives; History
Description: "This article explores early railroad expansion in this country and the ways new railroad technologies contributed to the development of the United States, particularly in the western states. The activities presented will help students understand how a steam engine works and why stopping a train can be a lengthy proposition. Students will also learn why magnets will figure prominently in future trains, why train derailments can be caused by hot weather, and why, as legend holds, train robbers put their ears to the track to detect oncoming trains"--Page 33.
Notes: Caption title.

"November/December 1995."

Poster title: All aboard! : Omaha, Cheyenne, all points west!

"Artwork and associated research by Shelly Fischman"--Poster.

Page 40 includes logos for: U.S. Department of the Interior ; U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration ; Association of American Railroads; and Bureau of Land Management.

"Reprinted with permission from Science and Children. Copyright ℗♭1995 by NSTA."

Includes bibliographical references (page 40).

Offprint: Science and children (National Science Teaching Association). November/December 1995.
Table of contents: title: Cadastral survey --; title: America embraces the railroads --; title: Railroads and land resources --; title: The transcontinental railroad --; title: A modern challenge : surveying the Alaska railroad --; title: Focus on safety : always expect a train --; title: From steam to MagLev --; title: Did you know...? --; title: For the classroom : build a steam engine ; mass affects friction ; sound conductors ; the doppler effect ; heat affects the tracks ; energy conservation ; energy transformation --; title: Poster with classroom activities.