Simple text and illustrations introduce a variety of trains andtheir uses. Includes freight trains, passenger trains, monorails, and subways.

Johnstone Country. Where Freedom Rings.
The only good outlaw is a dead outlaw . . .

Guarding a railroad that's working its way across a thousand miles of North America and through the Canadian Rockies ain't easy—especially when an army of cross-border outlaws starts wreaking havoc on the tracks. Smoke Jensen knows there's only one way to run this railroad: straight into one hell of a fight . . .
Live Free. Read Hard.

That the average parent is blind to the faults of its offspring is a fact so obvious that in attempting to prove or controvert it time and logic are both wasted. Ill temper in a child is, alas! too often mistaken for an indication of genius; and impudence is sometimes regarded as a sign of precocity. The author, however, has honestly striven to avoid this common prejudice. This book, the child of his brain, and experience, extending over a long period...

A history of the train as it developed from early steam engines to today's high-speed electric and diesel powered ones.

From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo...

"Packed with stunning photography, Train catalogs the development of trains from early steam to diesel engines and electric locomotives, explores in detail iconic trains such as the Palace on Wheels and the Orient Express, and chronicles the social, political, and cultural backdrop against which railways were built the world over. Profiling the best loved railways and rail journeys of all time - from the Union-Pacific Railroad to the Trans-Siberian...