Presents a board book with simple text and lift-the-flap illustrations introducing children to colors as they follow a freight train through tunnels, over bridges, and by cities until it's gone.

All aboard! Hop on a freight train to see where they go, what they carry, and why they are used around the world.

Describes and illustrates how a freight train is operated.

The train rolls along slowly at first, slowly enough to count the cars, to name their colors, and identify their functions, until it starts to pick up speed.

Freight Train waits patiently while his cars are filled with cargo to carry.

Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the Civil Rights Movement. In addition...

Thirty-six rail industry, War Dept., and film industry-produced short films chronicle the development of the railroad industry in the U.S. from the first transcontinental line to modern diesel engines.