Shields, Amy.

Trains / by Amy Shields. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2011 - 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm - National geographic readers .

H Trains -- All aboard! -- Full steam ahead -- Meet Owney -- Riding the rails -- Passenger trains -- Freight trains.

Choo Choo! Kids love trains! Especially the old-timey steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos. But what about a super-speeder in Japan that zooms on the track at 361 miles per hour? Or the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles? Or futuristic railways in the sky?

520
Lexile H
Raz-Plus

9781426307775 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781426307782 (library binding : alk. paper)


Railroads--History--United States--Juvenile literature.
Railroad travel--History--United States--Juvenile literature.

TF23 / .S54 2011

625.1