Farmyard Tales Christmas Flap Book

Farmyard Tales Christmas Flap Book
Author: Heather Amery
Publisher: Usborne Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781409509370

Presents a tale from Apple Tree Farm as the Boot family prepare for Christmas and Poppy and Sam wonder whether Santa will bring them what they asked for. This book offers an interactive reading experience for young children, who will love to lift the robust flaps to find out what Christmas surprises are hiding underneath.

Steam Train, Dream Train

Steam Train, Dream Train
Author: Sherri Duskey Rinker
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1452127956

The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car with ice cream, elephants fill the tanker cars with paints, tortoises stock the auto rack with race cars, bouncy kangaroos stuff the hopper car with balls. Sweet and silly dreams are guaranteed for any budding train enthusiasts! Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.

American Steam Locomotive

American Steam Locomotive
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1998
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780760303368

A powerful collection of yesterdays iron workhorses captured in a variety of nostalgic photographs. Solomon's thoroughly-researched text details the origins, development and growth of the steam locomotive from its earliest days right up to its final futile battles to compete with the diesel. Witness the intimate workings of old steam engines that used 20,000 gallons of water per hour! And look inside fireboxes large enough to host a dinner for 12! See these iron behemoths inside and out, in photographs of them on the tracks, as well as in shots of them being rebuilt. An action-packed profile of the mighty steam trains that once ruled the tracks.

Early American Steam Locomotives

Early American Steam Locomotives
Author: Reed Kinert
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0486141403

Relive train travel's earliest days with this splendidly illustrated story of steam locomotion, from "teakettles" to "titans." Working from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous accounts, the author re-creates, in accurate renderings, the earliest locomotives.

The Old Steam Train

The Old Steam Train
Author: Heather Amery
Publisher: Usborne Books
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780746033364

Poppy and Sam enjoy riding in an old steam train.

How a Steam Locomotive Works

How a Steam Locomotive Works
Author: Karen Parker
Publisher: TLC Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780939487899

This book examines how modern steam locomotive works, including all its major sub-systems and appliances. Illustrations show how each part of the locomotive fits into the overall functioning, some background on each aspect of each function, and examples of various locomotives from a wide variety of railroads all over the U.S. The book is written for the layman to understand, providing a really easy to comprehend, yet technically competent and complete volume that will be valuable for anyone interested in the steam era.

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World
Author: William Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226726347

"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night?

Where Do Steam Trains Sleep at Night?
Author: Brianna Caplan Sayres
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553521004

Take the train to dreamland with this board book version of the chugging bedtime tale, the perfect companion to Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and Where Do Jet Planes Sleep at Night? Have you ever wondered what little trains do when it’s time for bed? Same things you do! Steam trains, freight trains, subways—and more!—wash up, have a snack, load their teddies for storytime, and get rocked to sleep by mommy and daddy trains beneath a blanket of stars. Little one-track-mind train lovers will be tickled to see how bedtime is just the same for their favorite vehicles as it is for them. “Train lovers will be sure to take this bedtime read for a ride.” —School Library Journal

The Complete Visual History of Steam and Rail

The Complete Visual History of Steam and Rail
Author: Colin Garratt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Locomotives
ISBN: 9780754823636

Two perfect books for train enthusiasts, with a historical reference book spanning nearly two centuries of locomotive development, and an enthralling illustrated guide to the world's greatest railway journeys of all timme