num_pages: 64
description: It is the summer of 1869 and trains crews and family are traveling together riding America's brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds speed and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean.
language: English
title: Locomotive
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers