When a new speedy train challenges Huff and Puff to a race, the caboose and engine must find out if slow and steady can win the race.

Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.

On a snowy Christmas Eve, Thomas hopes he can finish his important deliveries and still have time to hang up his stocking.

Florida's railroad heritage began in the 1830s amidst Native American upheaval and territorial colonization. Surpassing waterways as the primary mode of transport, the "Iron Horse" linked practically every town and city, carried tourists and locals, and ably conveyed the wealth of Florida's mines, factories, forests, groves, and farms. Nearly 175 years later, railroads still remain a dependable source of transport within the Sunshine State.

The Pteranodon family takes a trip on the Dinosaur Train deep inside the Earth, where they explore the rocks and wildlife they find there.

"The Little Engine that Could" advises how to find one's own track, handle life's ups and downs, and even face the dark tunnels that can make one frightened or sad.

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.

The son of a sharecropper dreams of leaving Mississippi on a train with the legendary engineer Casey Jones.

From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness. Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry...

A color-illustrated historical overview of trains that also explains how trains work and presents a time line, a glossary, and a listing of related books and Web sites.