All Aboard!: Passenger Trains Around the World

by Karl Zimmermann

Experience the thrill of traveling by rail with stunning photographs of passenger trains from around the globe. Take a trip through the colorful history of passenger trains--and along those tracks where passenger rail still thrives. Learn how passenger trains developed from the Baltimore & Ohio's horse-drawn, stagecoach-like cars to France's trendsetting TGVs, the world's fastest trains. Discover the magic of sitting in a dome car, sleeping in a Pullman, dining on rails, and riding such grand trains as the Canadian, among the world's finest.

Genres: Childrens

48 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2006

Reviews

[Lisa Vegan]

Full disclosure: I rode the California Zephyr 9 times between the ages of 2 and 10 and from age 5 to 10 have extremely fond memories of those experiences. My love affair included the dome car, looking out at the moving vista from the window by my bed, the dining car (which would now not appeal), the movement, Christmas Day when I was 5, reading and playing in the dome car on my last Zephyr trip when I was 10, all the scenery. Just spectacular. I was a train junkie.

This is a fairly interesting history of train travel in various locations, past and present too. There are many photographs, which for me are the most interesting part of the book.

The photos of the Zephyr of my era on pages 6 and 24 probably convinced me to give this book what might be an extra star.

I enjoyed reading about train travel in various places and on various trains. There were some interesting tidbits of information. Who knew that a century ago there were “wildflower excursions” in Colorado, same day train trips specifically for people to pick mountain wildflowers? Not me.

There is a glossary in the back of the book, and an index too.

I happened to see this book on the shelf at my branch library. I now see that I’m the first person to shelve this book on Goodreads.