Trains

A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, engine or water-driven rope or wire winch, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines. Train tracks usually consist of two running rail ...more

New Releases Tagged "Trains"

The Elsewhere Express
6:40 to Montreal
Five Found Dead
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
Predatory Natures
The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5)
The Main Character
Peaces
Murder on the Safari Star (Adventures on Trains, #3)
Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train
Danger at Dead Man's Pass (Adventures on Trains, #4)
Death on the Caldera
Paris-Briançon
The Arctic Railway Assassin (Adventures on Trains, #6)
Delivery to the Lost City (The Train to Impossible Places, #3)
Peace Train
Freight Train
The Little Engine That Could
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Locomotive
Steam Train, Dream Train
Two Little Trains: A Soft, Beautifully Illustrated Picture Book About a Journey West for Kids (Ages 4-8)
The Polar Express
How to Train a Train
The Girl on the Train
Shark vs. Train
I Love Trains!: A Delightful Story About a Young Boy Who Loves Trains for Children (Ages 3-6)
Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo
Train
Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. AmbroseExploring Britain's Lost Railways by Julian HollandUnderground  Overground by Andrew   MartinEleven Minutes Late by Matthew EngelFire & Steam by Christian Wolmar
Books about railways
186 books — 24 voters
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie4 by Agatha ChristieBeware of the Trains by Edmund CrispinDeath on the Last Train by George BellairsMurder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood
Murder on the Tracks
25 books — 3 voters

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Train Tracks
76 books — 27 voters
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#MGCarousel - Books with Vehicles
20 books — 2 voters

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Cute Children's Kindle Picture Books
27 books — 19 voters
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Best Traveling Vicariously
2,134 books — 1,857 voters


Gerard Way
I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick! ...more
Gerard Way

Angela Carter
Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and shooting stars and the wolves who lap congealing ice from water that holds within it the entire sky. All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be used or touched. Horrors! And ...more
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

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