Terrific Trains

Terrific Trains follows the animal crew as they travel the railroads. Climb on board and whiz down the track to discover different types of trains and how rail travel works. Every page of this chunky board book is full of details machine-mad toddlers love: diesel, steam, and electric engines, the signals, and so much more! From airplanes to fire engines, the internationally bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle and the jobs it can do. Bright, engaging artwork and simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly, animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures!

Exposing children to a diverse range of literary and informational texts, the Core Concepts program helps develop important literacy and cognitive skills necessary to meet many of the Common Core State Standards. Few travel by trains today, but kids regardless are fascinated by the freight train, passenger trains, the conductor, and even the caboose. Terrific Trains mixes both illustrations and photographs to bring the railroad to life! Terrific Trains covers the concepts Transportation and Community Workers & Helpers.

Roger Carp, Classic Toy Trains Associate Editor, retells the stories of 12 great layouts originally featured in the magazine. These layouts encompass the wide variety of O and S gauge toy trains; vintage and modern; traditional and hi-rail; toy-like and scale models. Each layout features additional information and insights not published in Classic Toy Trains, and new techniques for building toy train layouts.

An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.

This interactive early learning activity book is packed full of trains! Trains that huff and puff and rattle and rush. Trains that can rumble over bridges and through tunnels.Trains with rails and wheels and coaches to carry people across the world. Preschool children will love the activity pages-- there are counting, matching, drawing, writing, coloring, and lots of other activities, as well as two pages of stickers to use. Inside the front and back covers are press-out play pieces that little fingers can use to build their very own terrific train!

Follow the development of trains, planes and ships, as they have grown more powerful, faster, and more fantastical through engineering skill, design and ambition.

Come learn all about trains and train conductors in this easy to read picture book.