Railroads And Trains category: 202 books

Climb aboard for a journey into the world of trains! In this fascinating Spanish-translated nonfiction title, readers learn about the history of trains, the different uses for them, and the different types and parts including freight cars, box cars, passenger cars, and the caboose. With detailed photos,...

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack…Who's that coming down the track? 'All aboard!' - Join the hard working trains for an exciting train ride. Little train enthusiasts will learn about different types of trains and train cars in this educational delight filled with bright illustrations and rhyming verse. This book features pop-up text and a fixed layout format which displays just like a print book.

Choo choo! The train is here! A freight train carries coal. A commuter train carries many workers. Through delightfully simple text and bright, close-up photos, beginning readers will learn about train parts, types, and uses in this eBook. Natural-voice audio and text highlighting enhance learning. All Little Pebble books have an Accelerated Reader ATOS level of 1.0 or below.

Trains take you where you need to go, and they move food and other goods from one place to another. Trains are full of shapes, too, which make them fun to look at. You can find circles on the train's wheels and rectangles on the railroad tracks and railroad signs. There are even shapes at the train...

Follow the troublesome train as it speeds through the day, causing mayhem as it turns too quickly round bends and loses parcels, packets and sacks of potatoes long the way. The fun, lively pictures and silly story in this book help to make reading at home successful and enjoyable. The book can be used...

Join the savvy Stickmen on a fun tour of modern cars and locomotives. See the inner and outer workings of these vehicles. The Stickmen share facts (and jokes), explain functions, and occasionally get doused in oil!

From the creators of What Can a Crane Pick Up? comes a train-ride adventure—perfect for fans of Thomas the Tank Engine and Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. In this inviting, rhyming read-aloud, two kids become travel buddies as they watch cities and landscapes and other hard-working...

What child doesn't love a train? Trains bring wonder and excitement as they chug along the countryside. Where are they going? Where did the come from? So many questions for young inquisitive minds. Charlie the Choo Choo: A Day at Work investigates the world around as the exciting little train experiences the world around him with his friends.

In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad headed westward from Nebraska, another company, the Central Pacific, pushed eastward from California. Their goal was to meet somewhere in between, forming a single railway line that would bridge the continent. That historic meeting took place in May 1869...

Running away from home, Mark finds himself in the world of the Railway. It is a vast world, where trains and passengers act like thoughts in a brain. The Railway is alive – and someone is trying to kill it. While being hunted by the Rail Baron’s thugs, he is forced into a dangerous...

This book explores eight railroads and subways that are lifelines for transportation in the U.S., but are overloaded and often falling apart. Whether its Boston’s T, Washington D.C.’s Metro, the crescent Corridor railroad route, or a Desert Line railroad running from the U.S. into Mexico, these...

Jimmy Cannon loves trains. And he wants to work on the railroad more than anything when he grows up. After all, his father is the foreman in Rowlesburg, and all the men in his family have worked on the rails. But times are changing in the 1940s, and JimmyÕs father sees a different future for his...

An exciting biography about the man who changed Florida's east coast with his hotels and his Florida East Coast Railway. Henry Morrison Flagler was already a millionaire when he first visited Florida in 1878. He liked what he saw. He came back and built railroads along the east coast so that...