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Chapters: Nardcore, Carnegie Art Museum (Oxnard, California), Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife, Habeas Corpus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that came out of Southern California in the early 1980s, originating in Silver Strand Beach, Oxnard and Port Hueneme. Most of the early Nardcore shows originated from Casa Tropical, Port Hueneme Skate Palace and other venues in the Oxnard area. Many early shows were at Casa de la Raza in Santa Barbara. Much of the early promotion of Nardcore came from Mystic Records, in Hollywood, Ca., and its founder Doug Moody. While questions have been raised about their financial dealings with the artists, this label not only launched many bands onto vinyl, but also promoted the Nardcore scene as a whole. The name is a reference to the Oxnard, California hardcore punk scene. This suburban community, sixty miles north of Los Angeles, California, was the spawning ground for many hardcore punk bands of the early '80s and became a hotbed for punk and skate bands; collectively, their sound became known as "Nardcore." The nardcore symbol (a common design feature in logos on record covers and tattoos) was scribbled in a notebook years ago by Ismael Hernandez of Dr. Know. A few of the original Nardcore bands, such as Dr. Know, were still performing in the 2000s. In summer 2002, a Henry Knowles Memorial Show featuring the "Nardcore All-Stars" took place. Rich Kids on LSD suffered the loss of their original drummer, Richard Anthony Manzullo (also known as "Bomer"), who died on December 12, 2005, and their front man, Jason Sears, who died in January 2006. After a short tour of Hawaii with the Oahu band 8mm Overdose, Ill Repute disbanded in July 2004 and briefly reforme...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3086924 ... Read more

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Chapters: Indiana Transportation Museum, National New York Central Railroad Museum, John Hay Center, Indiana Railway Museum, Linden Depot, Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Indiana Transportation Museum (initialized ITM, reporting mark ITMZ) is a railroad museum located in the Forest Park neighborhood of Noblesville, Indiana. It owns a variety of preserved railroad equipment, some of which still operate today. The Indiana Transportation Museum is an all-volunteer operated not for profit museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing railroads of Indiana, and share this equipment and information with the public, as well as operate trains to show how people travelled across the country in years gone by. The Indiana Transportation Museum operates excursion trains on 38 miles (61 km) of a former Nickel Plate Road line, originally built for the Indianapolis and Peru Railroad today owned by the Hoosier Heritage Port Authority, which is made up of the cities of Indianapolis, Fishers, and Noblesville, IN. Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive #587 in the restoration shops at the ITM.At the beginning of 2003, the museum's crown jewel, Nickel Plate 587, was taken out of service for a federally mandated boiler rebuild. Since then, much work has been ongoing the past 7 years for the restoration of this historic locomotive. In 2008, ownership of the engine was transferred from the Indianapolis Parks Department to the ITM permanently. She is expected to steam again by late 2011, if all goes as planned. ITM's tracks in Fishers, Indiana.The museum and restoration facilities are located in the northwest part of Noblesville, 20 miles (32 km) north of downtown Indianapolis, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the int...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7766151 ... Read more

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Chapters: U.s. Army Transportation Museum, Mariners' Museum, Virginia Living Museum, Endview Plantation, Virginia War Museum, Peninsula Fine Arts Center. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The U.S. Army Transportation Museum is a United States Army museum of vehicles and other transportation-related equipment and memorabilia. It is located on the grounds of Fort Eustis, Virginia, in Newport News, on the Virginia Peninsula. The museum was established in 1959, in a warehouse using items initially collected for a recruiting exhibit, and got a main building in 1976. An open-air pavilion for aviation exhibits opened in 1987. The buildings, built at a total cost of US$765,000, and other capital improvements are funded by the Army Transportation Museum Foundation (ATMF). Since the foundation is prohibited by law from obtaining state or federal grants, private donations are the only funding source. The museum reflects the history of the Army, especially of the United States Army Transportation Corps, and includes close to 100 military vehicles such as land vehicles, watercraft and rolling stock, including stock from the Fort Eustis Military Railroad. It is officially dedicated to General Frank S. Besson, Jr., who was the first 4 star general to lead the transportation command, and extends over 6 acres (24,000 m) of land, air and sea vehicles and indoor exhibits. The exhibits cover transportation and its role in US Army operations, including topic areas from the American Revolutionary War through operations in Afghanistan. A "Liberty truck", the first standardized US army truck The gun truck Eve of Destruction Forty-and-eights style boxcar in the Army Transportation Museum.The museum features a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m) main building and four outdoor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14358233 ... Read more

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Chapters: New Hope Valley Railway, North Carolina Transportation Museum, Black Cat Station. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The New Hope Valley Railway is a heritage railroad in Bonsal, North Carolina operated by the North Carolina Railway Museum, Inc., an all-volunteer, nonprofit, and tax exempt educational and historical organization. The railroad consists of 6 miles of track between the communities of Bonsal, North Carolina and New Hill, North Carolina. The railroad operates passenger excursion trains on the first Sunday of each month from May to November and both Saturday and Sunday during the first two weekends in December. Special trains are operated for Halloween on the evening of the last Saturday in October, and with other themes throughout the year. The railroad is operated by an all-volunteer crew, and it is a member of the Association of Railway Museums and the East Carolina Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS). The North Carolina Railway Museum also displays a collection of historic railroad equipment used in North Carolina at the railroad's Bonsal terminal. This is a primarily outdoor exhibit, and is open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekends only throughout the year. The railroad line operated as the New Hope Valley Railway was originally constructed as the Durham ... Read more

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Chapters: Minnesota Streetcar Museum, Minnesota Transportation Museum, Great Northern Depot (Princeton, Minnesota), Great Northern Depot (Wayzata, Minnesota), Bandana Square, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Depot (Montevideo, Minnesota), Duluth Depot, Lake Superior Railroad Museum, Tower Train Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Minnesota Streetcar Museum (MSM) is a transport museum that operates two heritage streetcar lines in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the western suburb of Excelsior. The museum was created as part of the restructuring of the Minnesota Transportation Museum in the winter of 20042005. The museum was founded in 1962 to restore a streetcar, Twin City Rapid Transit Company No. 1300, that had been operated by the TCRT until the last streetcar lines were abandoned in favor of buses in 1954. Over time, the museum diversified to include diesel and steam-powered trains, buses, steamboats, and associated buildings, papers, and photographs. When the museum was restructured in the winter of 2004 and 2005, the Minnesota Streetcar Museum assumed ownership of and responsibility for operation of the two streetcar lines. The Museum of Lake Minnetonka was created to operate a restored TCRT steamboat, the Minnehaha, which was built by TCRT in 1906, one of seven boats built in a design similar to the company's home-built streetcars. The Minnesota Streetcar Museum now has five operable streetcars, three from TCRT's fleet and two from the Duluth Street Railway Company. As of 2009, a streetcar from Winona, Minnesota is currently under restoration while a Fargo (North Dakota)-Moorhead Birney streetcar and a Mesaba Railway interurban car await restoration. For a detailed article see Como-Harriet Streetcar LineIn 1971 the Minnesota Transporta...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4702012 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wyoming State Capitol, Wyoming Transportation Museum, Wyoming Governor's Mansion, Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Wyoming State Capitol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The construction of the capitol was authorized in Wyoming Territory in 1886 by the Ninth Territorial Legislature Assembly, which specified that the cost should not exceed US$150,000. Governor Francis E. Warren appointed a five-member commission to select and purchase a site in Cheyenne, as well as to select an architect and solicit for construction. The commission selected the architectural firm of David W. Gibbs ... Read more

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Chapters: Science Museum of Minnesota, James J. Hill House, Minnesota Transportation Museum, Landmark Center, Minnesota Children's Museum, Alexander Ramsey House, Bandana Square, Minnesota History Center, Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments, Aaw Gallery of Wood Art. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The Science Museum of Minnesota is an American museum focused on topics in technology, natural history, physical science and mathematics education. Founded in 1907 and located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution is staffed by over 500 employees and over 1,600 volunteers. The museum's mission statement, "Turn on the science: realizing the potential of policy makers, educators, and individuals to achieve full civic and economic participation in the world", reflects its intention to foster science citizenship for all its publics. The "electro-metabograph machine" on display in the Quackery Hall of Fame The TriceratopsThere are a number of exhibits that are always in the museum, including: The new building has a dual-screen IMAX/Omnimax theater, with both a wall screen for IMAX films and other flat presentations, and a rotatable dome for viewing Omnitheater films, the first such convertible theater in the Northern Hemisphere. The domed screen can be rotated around the theater to reveal the IMAX screen. The counterweights for the system were so massive that they had to be put in place before the rest of the building. The theaters boasts "the largest permanently installed electronic cinema projector in the world," an advanced computer system to coordinate the theater's facilities, and a complex sound system to accommodate both viewing formats, according to the website. The museum has been a leading producer of Omnitheater...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1411172 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Defense Transportation Journal, published by National Defense Transportation Association on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1719 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: U.S. ARMY TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM.
Author: Fred Howland
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: National Defense Transportation Association
Volume: 57Issue: 4Page: 22

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Michigan Women's Hall of Fame honors distinguished women, both historical and contemporary, who have been associated with the U.S. state of Michigan. It is housed in the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame building, located at 213 W. Main Street in downtown Lansing, Michigan. The Historical Center also contains a resource library as well as exhibit galleries dedicated to preserving and presenting Michigan women's history and art. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1371351 ... Read more

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Chapters: Museum of the American Railroad, Texas Transportation Museum, T ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Defense Transportation Journal, published by National Defense Transportation Association on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1123 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: National D-Day Museum: America's National World War II Museum.(NEW ORLEANS)
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: National Defense Transportation Association
Volume: 61Issue: 3Page: 8(3)

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Excellent pictorial history of famed aircraft and aviation memorabilia depicted in 90 rare photos and illustrations: replica of Lilienthal Glider (1894), the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, America's most famous WW I airplane; Republic's P-47 Thunderbolt (1945), Grumman's Mobile Lunar Laboratory (Molab, 1964), and many other planes, spacecraft, rockets and missiles. Extensive captions.
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A remarkable display of museum exhibits
"Historic Aircraft and Spacecraft" in the Cradle of Aviation Museum is a remarkable display of museum exhibits. Black-and-white photographs pepper exhaustive and informational entries about relics of aviation history, from noted kite designs to sleek jet models. Historic Aircraft And Spacecraft is very highly recommended for aviation buffs, as well as students of aviation history. ... Read more

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• Includes discount coupons for nearly 100 attractions

Tourist railroads may be the best-kept vacation secret around! But now it’s time to get aboard with Tourist Trains 2006, the forty-first annual authoritative guide to more than 550 historic railroads, train museums, and railroad attractions across North America. Every destination is featured with a photo and full description so families can plan their trips. Kids, parents, grandparents—everybody loves trains, and this is the complete guide to seeing them, riding them, and enjoying them. All aboard! ... Read more

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Great for train fans
My son and I used this book as a reference and took a summer vaca to the Milwaukee-area.Well laid out and accurate info.Highly recommend for train enthusiasts who also like to travel.

Rail and travel buffs will find this a 'must' reference
Over 600 railroad-related attractions the general public can visit are packed into a listing guide which blends in photos and practical info such as hours, fees and directions - but wait, there's more! Don't forget the coupons for discounts on ticket prices --for avid train buffs, worth the price of the book itself - plus maps, photos, 'editor's choice' listings of special recommendations, and details on what kinds of trains may be found at each location. Rail and travel buffs will find this a 'must' reference.

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Complete Guide to the best in railroading

This, the 41st Edition (2006) of the best guide to railroading, continues the tradition of this great annual series listing and outlining hundreds of railroad museums and tourist trains across the US and Canada. Arranged by state, each site features a photo, a description of what's there, a schedule, the admission fees, special events, and directions on how to get to it. Contact information (addresses, phone numbers, email/internet info) is also provided. And, as usual, there are about a hundred discount coupons enclosed. Anyone interested in railroading or who plans on taking a vacation trip that might include visits to railroad sites or museums will find this guide indispensable. ... Read more