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Childrens Books : Age 9 to 12
Railroad books for children aged 9 to 12.
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Danger Train Author: Charles Edwin Price Publisher: The Overmountain Press; (August 1995)
Set in and around the Clinchfield Railroad yards in Erwin, Tennessee, in the 1920s, Danger Train vividly captures the exciting?and dangerous?days of steam railroading.
Filled with action and adventure, the story includes identifiable characters and situations that will keep third through seventh graders (as well as their parents) transfixed and will stimulate their imaginations from the first page to the last.
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It is hard to imagine a world without the wheel, yet there was a time before the wheel had been invented. Startlingly simple, the wheel remains one of humankind's most revolutionary and significant inventions. Road and Rail Transportation takes readers on a fascinating tour showing the evolution of the technologies used for transporting people and goods by land from one place to another. Beginning with the time before the wheel and following the story up through the present, with a look to the future as well, this volume provides detailed discussion on the development of technology that has led to travel by horse, bicycle, car, train, and variations of these vehicles. Illustrations accompany the engaging narrative, and a timeline, glossary, further readinglist, and index provide easy access to the broad range of information contained within the book's pages.
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There will be no Florence Station on the Red Rock Railroad Line. . . . From here on out the trains won't be stopping at Florence. Ever.
In 1893 Oklahoma's northwest is opened up to settlers by government decree, and Cissy Sissney and her family rush to join the tens of thousands of land runners intent on staking a new claim to their future. The Sissneys and two dozen other folk are the first settlers to arrive at the map-born town of Florence -- nothing but a double plot of sun-baked land, an empty space waiting to be filled.
Night has scarcely fallen when the trouble begins. A slick, oily-haired man drifts from campfire to campfire, offering -- on behalf of the Red Rock Railroad Company -- to buy out claims for $50 dollars apiece. Several weeks later, after all settlers but one refuse to sell, the president of the railroad lowers the boom. There'll be no more trains stopping at Florence. And without the railroad the town can't survive. So it's up to Cissy and her friends, family, and neighbors to come up with ways -- fair or foul -- to stop the train before they are all forced to abandon their homes forever.
From the incredibly versatile Carnegie medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a rollicking, beguiling tale of clever shenanigans and heartwarming faith in the promise of a new land.
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Overcoming impossible odds, the builders of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads raced toward each other to complete the Transcontinental Railroad in May 1869. Fraser recounts this fascinating piece of history for younger readers, explaining how teams of workers were organized, describing the special tools they used, and defining some flavorful railroad terms, such as andy dancers.
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