Some Trains Run on Water

Some Trains Run on Water

Author: Kate Petty

Publisher: Copper Beach Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780761305989

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Provides information about different types of trains, including steam locomotives, electric trains, trams, and modern high-speed trains.


Trains

Trains

Author: S.Chand Experts

Publisher: S. Chand Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 8121937825

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For Age Limit: 7-9 years || Fact Filled cross-curricular books. || Interactive true or false, search and find features. Superb artwork


Thomas Gets a Snowplow (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas Gets a Snowplow (Thomas & Friends)

Author: Rev. W. Awdry

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-12-22

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 0375984135

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Winter is coming and Thomas, being a small engine, needs to put on his snowplow. Thomas hates his snowplow; he thinks it makes him look funny, and when he has it on, the other, bigger engines tease him. But Thomas saves the day when a big storm comes up and Toby is stuck on his branch line. From the Trade Paperback edition.


Trains Run!

Trains Run!

Author: George Ella Lyon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1481482033

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We’ve already learned that trucks roll, planes fly, and boats float. Now, all aboard for the fourth book in George Ella Lyon’s transportation series, and this time learn all about trains! Train travels down the track— all day gone all night back. Trains run! From steam engines to subways, from the locomotive to the caboose, this story stays right on track, exploring all different kinds of trains and what they do in a day.


Waiting on a Train

Waiting on a Train

Author: James McCommons

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2009-11-06

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1603582592

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During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.