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Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family.

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 transcontinental railroad.

Nancy Drew, girl detective, takes her friends into the woods to investigate some mysterious lights and becomes caught up in a quest to find an engine abandoned in an old warehouse after World War II that reportedly can get two hundred miles per gallon of fuel.

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.

"Everything you need to know in order to find, keep and train your very own pet train.

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.

After a small setback, Mr. Putter and his favorite companions enjoy the best train ride of their lives.

A train pulling heavy freight cars races a speedy, little sports car to Chicago.

Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--but even that friendship cannot keep Doug from sinking farther and farther into the grip of insanity.

A little blue engine comes to the rescue of a train that is loaded with toys, dolls, and good things to eat, but cannot get over the mountains to deliver the cargo to waiting children.

For young Measle Stubbs, surviving a stay in a haunted castle means confronting pictures that come to life, a murderous suit of armor, and a jellybean-loving wrathmonk.

"Florida, USA, 1969. It's a day that will go down in history: the day astronauts first landed on the Moon! But while Apollo 11 is preparing to launch from Cape Canaveral, the Pirate Cats are sneaking around the Mouse Island Space Center.

In the mid-nineteenth century, teenager Lee Chin and his father leave China for California to work on the transcontinental railroad, where Lee defies his father's wishes and saves money to free his younger sister from slavery in China, then brings her to join him in beginning a new life in America.

On a trip to Pennsylvania, presidential stepdaughter KC Corcoran and her friend Marshall are exploring the rest of the train when the special caboose at the back disappears--along with the Vice President.