Directory of Trains Resources

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American Experience- Streamliners

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/streamliners/
Learn about these trains and how they helped shape train travel in the 1930's. From PBS.
Railroad Invention and History

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm
History of railroad locomotive and train innovations through the years.
The American Experience: Riding the Rails

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rails/
At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. This site tells the stories of ten of them -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced. From PBS.
The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/trains/kids/index-e.html
Listen to old songs about trains, their sounds, video clips, view pictures, and read railway stories.
The Orphan Trains

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/
They were designed to take their passengers to a better place, a fresh start. Features pictures and story of orphans from the cities sent out west. PBS.
The Train Era

http://www.transitpeople.org/lesson/train.htm
Single-page train history and self-scoring quiz.

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