Cynical journalist Tom Langdon comes to a new understanding of himself and a renewed appreciation for the season of miracles after a slight misunderstanding at the airport forces him to travel by train from Washington to Los Angeles at Christmastime.

"The day after depositing cash in his account, cattleman Duff MacCallister learns that bank president Joel Prescott embezzled every cent and then, guilt-ridden, committed suicide. Joel was Duff's banker but also his longtime friend. Joel's widow doesn't believe her husband was a thief or that he killed himself. Duff agrees. And after getting an appointment as a territorial marshal, he's aiming his barrel at putting every double-crossing lawman, red-handed...

Experience fascinating international train journeys. On the way, sample the many different cultures, people and landscapes.

An introduction to the history and workings of steam locomotives.

The Big Books of Trains is a colorful compendium of amazing trains and locomotives that will entertain and inform children for hours. Learn all about powerful steam engines, hanging monorails, and superfast bullet trains. Featuring stunning illsutrations of locomotives and fun facts, The Big Books of Trains is the ultimate first trains book.

"Colorado, June 1878. Caleb Marlowe learns that local power broker Judge Horace Patterson is targeted for assassination by agents of a financial magnate. Elijah Starr, acting for a railroad robber baron, will use any ruthless method at his disposal to clear the way to control a planned rail line to be built through Elkhorn. Caleb is commissioned to bring Starr in to face justice after the assassination attempt, but he has his own burning agenda....

Lawrence E. Crane, troubleshooter for the Chicago & Far Western Railroad, rode into Warbow prepared for the worst. Urgently summoned by the local land agent for the railroad, Crane found the town on the brink of explosive violence. A troop of cavalry stationed there refused to heed the local lawman, and more and more often there were clashed between soldiers and civilians. Bitterness had been growing, and tempers were further strained by a recent...

The Amish have a casino on the Las Vegas Strip (no electricity, of course); the Mormon Underground rescues people from the clutches of the federal government; the Pentecostals have joined the Aryan Nation ("they were the only church that had guns"). The United States has devolved into a feudal society; epidemics rage unchecked due to the collapse of the health system; ecoterrorists are bent on destroying every landmark in the book 1,001 Must-See Sites...

The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds...

Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.