Trains at Work
Author: first_name: Mary
last_name: Elting Folsom
Language: English

This is a wonderful children's book about trains, specifically those exciting steam engines that covered our country in the early 1900's.  It describes what it was like to ride in them, work in them, repair them, fix the tracks, repair 'hot boxes' and lots of other interesting things about those glorious days when America traveled by train.  So if  you want to know what 'high balling ' it means, and what the job of a brakeman or an engineer was, listen to our LibriVox readers tell you all about