Photographs and text provide young readers with information about trains, how they look, the jobs they do, and how they operate.

As Thomas and his friends are getting ready for the Easter parade, Sir Topham Hatt asks Thomas to go to McColl's farm and bring back an Easter egg, but Thomas must hurry if he wants to get back in time to lead the parade.

Whether sending toy animals on a journey around a model track or driving a cardboard-box locomotive, this little puppy really likes trains, and the best part of all is riding a real train.

"Moose, Goose, and Mouse ride a loose caboose on their way to finding a new house"--

A little red train goes on a trip from the seaside to the forest, the city, the farm, and finally the station for a rest, where it is visited by a bunch of noisy birds.

A boy expresses his love of trains, describing many kinds of train cars and their special jobs.

In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.

Thomas is just in the way as his friends help prepare for a big ocean show at the docks, but when Percy is startled by one of the exhibits and creates havoc, Thomas helps get things back on track.

The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their...