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The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps Stephen Krensky In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinen… OL115757W
Midnight specials Midnight specials Bill Pronzini Contents: 3 • The Signalman • (1866) • shortstory by Charles Dickens 18 • The Shooting of Curly Dan • (1973) • shortstory by John Lutz 26 • The Invalid's Story • (1882) • shortstory by Mark Tw… OL16332392W
Railsea Railsea China Miéville "On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle re… OL16564661W
Hero of the rails Hero of the rails Tommy Stubbs Thomas and pals must save a broken-down engine from the scrap heap. OL16668033W
Lights, camera, Action Chugger! Lights, camera, Action Chugger! Ivy Silver On his way to a movie set, Action Chugger crash-lands! Can Brewster save his hero? OL16686974W
Hey! Get Off Our Train Hey! Get Off Our Train John Burningham At bedtime a young boy takes a trip on his toy train and rescues several endangered animals. OL1805922W
Peas Peas Nicholas Heller After refusing to eat his peas, Lewis dreams that they get out of their bowl and go for a wild ride on his electric train. OL18957259W
Margret & H.A. Rey's Curious George catches a train Margret & H.A. Rey's Curious George catches a train Margret Rey Curious George's chaotic adventures continue when the inquisitive monkey pays a visit to the train station. George, the man with the yellow hat and Mrs Needleman are at the train station. George beco… OL24284659W
The prairie dog conspiracy The prairie dog conspiracy Eric Wilson Tom stumbles across strange activity in an abandoned house, and aboard an historic train. OL24293103W
Tracks Tracks David Galef Summary, When Albert breaks his glasses while supervising the laying of the railroadtracks between two towns, he becomes responsible for one of the most exciting rides that the townspeople have ever … OL2684706W
Under the almond tree Under the almond tree Laura McVeigh Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her … OL27062135W
The Railway Children The Railway Children E. Nisbet When their father is falsely accused of espionage and sent to prison, three children move with their mother to a house by the railyard. OL28771709W
Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie ***While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift.*** Passengers awake to find the train still strande… OL471576W
The Mystery of the Blue Train The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress bailing out of a… OL471603W
The yellow train The yellow train Alistair Highet A young boy takes an adventurous journey with his grandfather on the old train, recalling how it was used to explore and settle the Far West. OL487640W
The stingray shuffle The stingray shuffle Tim Dorsey When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rej… OL503177W
Thunder down the track Thunder down the track Dayton O. Hyde Birch's father, a retired steam engineer, starts his own small railroad and finds it threatened by an unscrupulous company. OL524393W
I saw an ant on the railroad track I saw an ant on the railroad track Joshua Prince Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to save an ant who is heading east on a westbound track, straight into the path of an oncoming freight train. OL5827555W
The Railway Children The Railway Children Edith Nesbit When Father mysteriously goes away, the children and their mother leave their happy life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. 'The Three Chimneys' lies beside a railway track -… OL99509W
Badland Bloodbath Badland Bloodbath Robert J. Randisi Kidnapping a train-load of children worth a king's ransom, a group of bandits hide deep in the Devil's Catacombs. But Skye Fargo could track the Devil himself, and he's determined to send these outla… OL999553W
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