A little red caboose thinks nobody cares for him until he prevents his train from slipping backwards down a mountain.

A little engine decides it could go much faster without pulling all the other cars, so it takes off by itself.

Tootle is in Train School and loves to go fast, so he must learn to stay on the tracks no matter what.

On any other night, the train departing from Stain'd Station does not stop on its way to the city. What makes this night different is far less important than what waits on the other side of the tracks as readers reach the end of the line with this conclusion to the series.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal different kinds of trains, how they run, and the sounds they make.

Describes the locomotives, cars, tunnels, stations, and functions of such trains as freight trains, channel tunnel trains, bullet trains, mountain trains, and snow trains.

Traces the development of railways from the first Babylonian rutways to the electromagnetic, driverless trains of today, and describes how trains are built and operated.

"From the boiler to the coupling, build a steam train along with an engineer and her workers"--