While traveling on the train to San Francisco with his cousin Olivia's owl, Nate the Great and his dog Sludge must use all of their detective skills when the owl suddenly disappears.
Introduces all sorts of trains from around the world, covering different types of trains, how they are constructed and how they run, who drives them, and more.
In 1932, during the Depression in Ohio, thirteen-year-old Rudy, determined to help his family weather the hard times, hops a train going west to California and experiences the hobo life.
Describes the locomotives, cars, tunnels, stations, and functions of such trains as freight trains, channel tunnel trains, bullet trains, mountain trains, and snow trains.
Photographs and simple text portray five working steam locomotives of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad as they travel through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.