Genealogy Journey's Podcast #52: Railroads

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Podcast #52 is about railroads. Gena and Jean talk about railroads and their history. Do you have railroading ancestors? Gena has 4 generations of  railroad employees in her family tree.

  Resources

Etymology

Barnhart, Robert K. (Ed.) Chambers Dictionary of Etymology. New York: Chambers, 2003.

Funk, Charles Earle. Heavens to Betsy & Other Curious Sayings. New York: Harper & Row, 1955.

Garrison, Webb B. Why You Say it: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 700 Everyday Words and Phrases. New York: Abingdon Press, 1955.

Hendrickson, Robert. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Rev. & Expanded Ed. New York: Checkmark Books, 1997, 2000.

Holt, Alfred. Phrases and Word Origins: A Study of Familiar Expressions. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961.

Mordock, John, & Korach, Myron. Common Phrases and Where They Came From. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2001.

Morris, William, & Morris, Mary. Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Websites 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_railway https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/texas-railroad-history/ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqr01 https://sites.google.com/site/historyofrrunions/home/early-history-1800-1899 https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/old-railroads5.htm http://www.ushistory.org/us/25b.asp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm http://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpress/faqs/ https://www.nps.gov/neri/learn/historyculture/john-henry-and-the-coming-of-the-railroad.htm http://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/856 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_lease https://cyndislist.com/railroads/

Basic history
John F. Stover, The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads, New York: Routledge, 1999.

--Jean Wilcox Hibben