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Great American Railroad Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and broadcast on BBC Two. 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 ...
Great American Railroad Journeys: With Michael Portillo, Elizabeth Welch, David Rambow. Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States.
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Great American Railroad Journeys. Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in...
Halifax to Prince Edward Island. 6/10 Michael Portillo begins a new journey on the tracks of the Ocean line. Kamloops to Calgary. 5/10 Michael Portillo boards one of the world’s most famous...
Armed with his 19th-century Appleton's guidebook to the United States and Canada, Michael Portillo embarks on a 1,100-mile railroad journey from Boston, Massachusetts, to Toronto, Ontario. On...
Following the Hudson river, national railroad carrier Amtrack goes from NYC's Penn (sylvania) station over Yonkers, after a Dutch manufacturing magnate, trough wild country inspiring major US literature (Washington Irving) and painting, to Garrison, a strategic focus during the Secession War, seat of US Army officers school West Point (also supp...
Michael presents his second American rail route using the Appleton's guide, this time along a great axis of the pioneers follow-up west of the Appalachians, across the great barrier stream Mississippi.
