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The first Pony Express ride was a race against time, but the mail had to come from New York before the rider could start out.Sku: 9780898247473
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
By: Royal Fireworks Press$15.95 -
In the early days of the locomotive, there were no rules about how the trains were to be run or even who was in charge.Sku: 9780898247466
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
By: Royal Fireworks Press$13.50 -
General Dodge was in charge of building the Union Pacific Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska. Charlie Crocker was in charge of building the Central Pacific Railroad east from California. The railroad tracks were supposed to meet in the middle.Sku: 9780880927475
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle
By: Royal Fireworks Press$15.95 -
Here is the story of one of the most influential early locomotives in America, the John Bull. Imported from England in 1831, this amazing workhorse was used to help build and then run the first successful New Jersey railroad, the Camden & Amboy Railroad, which reduced from days to hours the journey for freight and passengers between New York and Philadelphia.Sku: 9798888180631
John Bull
By: David Weitzman$20.50 -
Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country! From prize-winning author/illustrator Brian Floca comes a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America's early railroads.3 GradesSku: 9781416994152
Locomotive
By: Brian Floca$27.00 -
Peter Cooper knew for certain about his homemade little steam engine. All he had to do was show people what his new iron horse could do.Sku: 9780880927451
Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half
By: Royal Fireworks Press$13.50 -
It took 30,000 workers less than five years to cross the wild land. This is the story of Canada’s first transcontinental railway and the thousands of people who made the dream of a united Canada a reality. This is also a look at the freight trains, school trains, troop trains and passenger trains that helped shape a country, the people who worked and rode on them and what our railway system looks like today.Sku: 9781554532568
The Kids Book of Canada’s Railway
By: Deborah Hodge$14.99 -
From the publisher: The story of a train filled with toys and gifts for little boys and girls that breaks down before reaching the children. After asking several passing trains for help over the hill, a little blue train agrees to help the stranded toys. Even though she is small, the blue train tries her best to bring the toys to the children on the other side of the hill.4 GradesSku: 9780448405209
The Little Engine That Could
By: Paul Galdone$14.99 -
A young boy, lying awake one Christmas Eve, is welcomed aboard a magical train to the North Pole. The Polar Express makes its way to the city atop the world, where the boy will make his Christmas wish. This is a story for all who believe in the spirit of Christmas and those who treasure the sound of a reindeer's silver bell.Sku: 9780544580145
The Polar Express
By: Chris Van Allsburg$26.99 -
Clickety-clack. Clickety-clack. Choo, choo! Race down the tracks with this colorful book all about trains.Sku: 9780823406999
Trains
By: Gail Gibbons$10.99 -
In the early 1830s, iron horses were being built all along the East Coast, and whenever they arrived in a new town, people were excited to ride them for the first time.Sku: 9780898247459
William Brown Rides the DeWitt Clinton
By: Royal Fireworks Press$13.50 -
William Ogden bought himself a used locomotive and some train cars and had a few miles of railroad tracks built from Chicago going west, all despite the citizens of Chicago telling him that he was wasting his time.Sku: 9780880927468
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
By: Royal Fireworks Press$13.50