Book Description
A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.
Author : Sally Crabtree
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2007-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781905236916
A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1603582592
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.
Author : Caleb Meurer
Publisher : Pi Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9781450819060
It's a Look and Find for toddlers,featuring bigger art and characters that little ones love. Readers will be encouraged to look for "find 'em" items onc, with a panel showing 6 things to find. The 7 busy scenes do not require the child to read
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1465462147
From the first locomotive built in 1804 to the high-speed bullet train, The Big Book of Trains is the perfect ebook for kids who love trains. Includes amazing facts and photographs of trains around the world, The Big Book of Trains covers the history of trains and train travel. Different types of trains are featured on their own spreads, and each page features multiple images to give a close-up view as well as informative text about each train. See the differences among monorails, passenger trains, and TGVs. Learn about pistons, fireboxes, boilers, and coupling rods, and find out exactly what they do to help the train travel down on the tracks. See key features of each train model and discover the difference between steam trains and diesels. Find out how trains are designed for certain jobs and tasks, including mountain trains, snow trains, and freight trains. Look at the biggest and fastest trains in the world. With incredible pictures and informative text, The Big Book of Trains is the essential ebook for young readers who want to know everything about trains.
Author : Australian Railway Historical Society. Queensland Division
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780909937027
A series of questions and answers provides information about the physical characteristics, senses, eating habits, life cycles, and behavior of different insects.
Author : Charlotte Voake
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780744572964
The authors seeks to capture all the excitement and suspense of waiting on a footbridge high above a railway track. William, Chloe and their dad wait, watch and listen. And then, in the distance is a little speck, coming nearer and nearer. Here comes the train
Author : Holger Matthes
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1593278195
Learn the model-making process from start to finish, including the best ways to choose scale, wheels, motors, and track layout. Get advice for building steam engines, locomotives, and passenger cars, and discover fresh ideas and inspiration for your own LEGO train designs. Inside you'll find: -A historical tour of LEGO trains -Step-by-step building instructions for models of the German Inter-City Express (ICE), the Swiss “Crocodile,” and a vintage passenger car -Tips for controlling your trains with transformers, receivers, and motors -Advice on advanced building techniques like SNOT (studs not on top), microstriping, creating textures, and making offset connections -Case studies of the design process -Ways to use older LEGO pieces in modern designs For ages 10+
Author : Jodi Adams
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN :
Author : J. Thorn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781545422229
A relic thief. An ex-military Mom. A grief-stricken father willing to do anything to save his son. An American Demon Hunter. All aboard the 8.05pm from Chicago to New Orleans for 19 hours that will change their lives. When the relic of an ancient blood cult is used to summon the dead and open a portal to the beyond, demons escape onto the train. As the body count rises, each must fight to save their own lives and those of the people they love. New friendships are forged in the battles and love blossoms in the carnage. But who will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice? A dark fantasy from four bestselling authors who just happened to be on the 8.05pm from Chicago one March evening...
Author : Ric Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Complete history of the Train Of Tomorrow from concept to rescue