locomotive engineers

Tsukuru Tazaki has four best friends at school and all of their names contain a color, but his last name does not. Things only get worse for Tsukuru when his friends announce that they do not want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Tsukuru cannot form intimate connections with anyone, until he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.

Throughout its existence, America has used many different technologies to help improve the country. In the 1800s, trains were developed and used for the first time. Eventually, they connected the East to the West. Discover what life was like on the first railroads in America, particularly for the engineers who ran them—what conditions they faced, what dangers occurred, and how railroads changed America forever.

Presents the life story of John Luther Jones, an American railroad engineer whose death was celebrated in the ballad Casey Jones, which made him a folk hero.

Retells the true story of Casey Jones, the engineer who always brought his train in on time.

Relates some of the exploits of railroad engineer Casey Jones.

At the turn of the century, a young woman who works on the railroad accomplishes her yearning ambition to become an engineer when a male engineer is injured and can't drive his train.

Presents the life story of John Luther Jones, an American railroad engineer whose death was celebrated in the ballad Casey Jones, which made him a folk hero.

Even as a boy, Casey Jones was fascinated by trains. He grew up to become a train engineer, famous for his record-setting arrival times and heroic deeds. This little-known figure of American history died while trying to stop a speeding train, an act that became part of his already impressive legend. Includes time line, glossary, and index.