railroads

Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.

Explores the history of trains, focusing on how developments in technology have affected train engines, brakes, speed, design, and performance.

This book discusses the history of trains, the invention of high-speed trains and the high-speed train systems of European countries.

Contains labeled color photographs of different types of trains around the world.

A young boy watches a freight train go by on its daily run.

In 1892, Max and Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.

Traces the development of railways from the first Babylonian rutways to the electromagnetic, driverless trains of today and describes how trains are built and operated.

In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America. Includes historical note about the Chinese who helped build the transcontinental railroad.

In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.

Clany Sullivan works with his friends to help complete the transcontinental railroad.