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Trains: 51 Fabulous Facts
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Everyone loves trains – especially kids!
In this lively, fast-paced book, you’ll find 51 Fabulous Facts about trains and railroads from all over the world. With stunning photographs!
Steam Engines! Cabooses! Locomotives! Bullet Trains!
Trains that move through magnetic levitation ... trains that moved by burning coal. How fast trains go. Who rides them. Luxury trains like the Orient Express.
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Trains - Lucy Wilson
Trains: 51 Fabulous Facts
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Lucy Johnson
Copyright 2013
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter
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