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1) Trains
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Kids love trains! Especially the old-timey steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos. But what about a super-speeder in Japan that zooms on the track at 361 miles per hour? Or the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles? Or futuristic railways in the sky? In this Level 1 reader, young readers will discover a whole new way of looking at trains!"--Amazon.com.
4) Locomotive
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
5) Trains
Author
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and supportive full-color photographs introduce young readers to trains. Intended for kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
9) Train
Author
Series
Eyewitness books ; 39
Language
English
Description
"A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contributed to the development and progress in the US and facilitated the spread of population...
Author
Series
Mountain man ; 30
Language
English
Description
Johnstone Country. Where Freedom Rings.
The only good outlaw is a dead outlaw . . .
Guarding a railroad that's working its way across a thousand miles of North America and through the Canadian Rockies ain't easy—especially when an army of cross-border outlaws starts wreaking havoc on the tracks. Smoke Jensen knows there's only one way to run this railroad: straight into one hell of a fight . . .
Live Free. Read Hard.
The only good outlaw is a dead outlaw . . .
Guarding a railroad that's working its way across a thousand miles of North America and through the Canadian Rockies ain't easy—especially when an army of cross-border outlaws starts wreaking havoc on the tracks. Smoke Jensen knows there's only one way to run this railroad: straight into one hell of a fight . . .
Live Free. Read Hard.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
That the average parent is blind to the faults of its offspring is a fact so obvious that in attempting to prove or controvert it time and logic are both wasted. Ill temper in a child is, alas! too often mistaken for an indication of genius; and impudence is sometimes regarded as a sign of precocity. The author, however, has honestly striven to avoid this common prejudice. This book, the child of his brain, and experience, extending over a long period...
14) Encyclopedia of North American railroading: 150 years of railroading in the United States and Canada
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
15) The U.P. trail
Author
Language
English
Description
From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A highly illustrated volume tracing the emergence of modern railways. In this book, Derek Hayes compiles archival maps and illustrations, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the world's early railways, as well as the locomotive and rail technology that was key to the development of those railroads. In addition to maps, the illustrations include photos of most of the surviving first locomotives from collections around...
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