Freight trains in action / by Adele D. Richardson.
Material type: TextSeries: First facts. Transportation zonePublication details: Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, 2012.Description: 24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 1429668288 (library binding)
- 9781429668286 (library binding)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 625.2 R521 | Available | 33111007168608 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
You hear a long whistle in the distance. Then the ground seems to shake a bit. Here comes a freight train! Freight trains carry cargo from one place to another. Learn more about these exciting vehicles in Freight Trains in Action.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Freight trains -- Before freight trains -- Inventor of the locomotive -- Early freight trains -- Parts of a freight train -- How a freight train works -- Operating a freight train -- Freight trains today -- Freight train facts -- Hands on: railroad tracks -- Words to know -- Read more -- Internet sites.
Explains what freight trains are, their history, their different parts, and how they work.
"RL: 1-2 ; IL: 1-3"-- P. [4] of cover.