PAST & PRESENT TRAINS (Travelling Through Time)

by Neal Morris (Author), Terence Hadler (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $7.26

  ` Exploring the history of train travel from the 1800s to the present day, this book which is one of a series, describes the impact trains have had on the way we live. It tells the story of rail travel from the days of the pioneers of steam in 1825, the rail link 45 years later right across North America and the developments in the 1900s of the legendary Trans-Siberian Express which took two weeks to cross Russia. Diesels ended the age of steam in the 1950s. Almost 50 years later rail travel has been transformed by today's high-speed electric trains which can travel at an amazing 300 kilometres an hour.