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A non-fiction book written primarily in free verse, the book follows a family as they ride a transcontinental steam engine train in summer of 1869. The book details the workers, passengers, landscape, and effects of building and operating the first transcontinental railroad. The book also contains prose about the earlier and later history of ...
This book is the first to allude to the threat of scrapping faced by steam engines on British Railways. The Express is given a name in this book. It is called the "Wild Nor' Wester", an allusion to the fact that the Fat Controller's railway was properly known as the North Western Railway at this time.
The first version with the title "The Little Engine That Could" appeared in 1920 in the U.S., in Volume 1 of My Book House, a set of books sold door-to-door. [2] This version began: "Once there was a Train-of-Cars; she was flying across the country with a load of Christmas toys for the children who lived on the other side of the mountain". [2]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Ghost Train (book) J. Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver; L. Little Blacknose;
The story begins on a tiny island called Morrowland (original German: Lummerland, a play on Nimmerland [], the German translation of Neverland), which has just enough space for a small palace, a train station and rails all around the island, a grocery store, a small house, a king, two subjects, a locomotive named Emma, and a locomotive engineer by the name of Luke (Lukas) (who, as railway ...
Tootle (ISBN 0307020975) is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely in 1945. It is part of Simon & Schuster 's Little Golden Books series. As of 2001, it was the all-time third best-selling hardcover children's book in English, in the USA.
Freight Train is a 24-page children's picture book written and illustrated by Donald Crews and published by Greenwillow Books in 1978. It lacks any story, but rather describes the inner workings of a large cargo train. It was named one of 1979's Caldecott Honor books. [1]
Steam locomotive on Kyiv Children's Railway, Ukraine, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge. A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where children interested in rail transport can learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times.