Rhyming text introduces a variety of trains as they leave a station, rush along the tracks, and arrive at the platform where travelers are waiting.

Roar! A train speeds past! Find out what trains carry in their many cars, from people to building supplies and fuel. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative sidebars and captions, an activity, critical-thinking questions, sources for further research, a phonetic glossary, an index, and an introduction to the author. Activities for further learning Author/Illustrator biography Educational front/back matter...

"Christmas Eve, 1940. On the Pelican Road, an isolated stretch of railway between Meridian, Mississippi and New Orleans, two trains travel toward one another through the snow. A.P. Dunn, engineer aboard the 4512, a southbound freight, can remember every detail of the last trip he made in the snow, in 1923. What he can't recall are the events of a few hours ago: where he ate his breakfast, how he got the troublesome gash. On the northbound Silver Star,...

Singer Johnny Cash rides the rails to tell, through narration and song, how the railroad has contributed to the building of America from 1830 to the present.

Buddy the Tyrannosauraus Rex makes a new friend.

"Explores various perspectives on the process of building the transcontinental railroad. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--