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Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.

Little Blue Engine rescues his best friend, the toy clown, from a runaway engine.

Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.

Brief text, illustrations, and diagrams discuss all varieties of trains from their origins to future trains.

Presents the classic tale of a little blue engine who agrees to try and pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain.

Readers experience the sights and sounds of a cross-country trek on America's new transcontinental railway during the summer of 1869.

The little blue engine encourages a clown, unable to ride his birthday bike, to keep trying.

Wilson gets lost while trying to clear the tracks with Harrison during a snowstorm in Chuggington, and Action Chugger comes to the rescue.

Describes the locomotives, cars, tunnels, stations, and functions of such trains as freight trains, channel tunnel trains, bullet trains, mountain trains, and snow trains.

"From horse-drawn carts on wheels to flying trains, there is no doubt that trains have become a major force for societal change. Humans have moved goods and themselves from place to place from our earliest times. Creating solutions to these problems have long engaged creative people. This resource explores the remarkable engineering feats that have moved this form of transportation forward into the twenty-first century"--Publisher.