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Meet the Trains!
Race to the rescue with kid-favorite trains in this shaped board book! Choo-choo! It's time to gear up! Fans of Netflix's Mighty Express will enjoy this sturdy, shaped board book starring their favorite team of trains and their kid best-buddies.
Express Trains, English and Foreign
Excerpt from Express Trains, English and Foreign: Being a Statistical Account of All the Express Trains of the World With Railways Maps of Great Britain and Europe Our standard for an Express train in Great Britain 2 and the United States is any train which attains a speed, including stops, of 40 miles an hour, but it must, as a rule, cover a distance of at least forty miles. In other countries we call Express any train which attains a speed, including stops, of 29 miles an hour, this being quite the common Continental express speed. Certain trains on very hilly ground are admitted even when they fall a mile or two below their respective standards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publish...
Express Trains
From the Golden Arrow Pullman Service to the Royal Scot and the Flying Scotsman, this book celebrates the most luxurious, fastest and most famous train services from the great age of steam.
Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel (Poirot)
Experience Agatha Christie’s puzzling masterpiece as you've never seen it before with this official graphic novel adaptations!
Express Trains, English and Foreign
This impressive data-driven tome offers an exhaustive survey of global express train routes and operators, ranging from England's Flying Scotsman to the Orient Express. Farrer and Foxwell's meticulously annotated and illustrated guide is an essential reference tool and engrossing read for fans of trains, transportation history, or simply anyone interested in the mechanics of travel. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
High Speed Trains
This book examines the history of high speed trains around the world, beginning with Japanese bullet trains of the 1960s. It covers not just the trains, but the problems and solutions for the lines on which they run, leading up to and including the latest Chinese locomotives. Table of Contents include: A History of Fast Trains, 1885 to 1981 * The Technology for High Speed: Track, Signalling, Power * Considerations for High Speed Rail in Australia * Japan - The Shinkansen: New Gauge, New Track, New Trains * France - The TGV: New Trunk Lines but Compatibility to Use Existing Termini * Britain - The HST: Fast Diesel Trains and Electric Successors * The US and the Northeast Corridor * Germany - The ICE: Massive Engineering Combined With Compatibility * The High Speed Diaspora in Europe * Spain - Imported and Local Designs: AVE and Alvia * China, Korea, and Taiwan - Progressive Development * Australia - Potential Limited by Trackwork
