By Patrick O'Brien
All aboard! This educate travels via historical past making stops in time to benefit in regards to the development of commute by way of rail.
Hop up into the cab of a rushing modern day locomotive and glance down the tracks into the previous. maybe those are an identical tracks that the diesel-electric locomotives of thirty years in the past thundered down, pulling their so much. might be you'll discover the steam engines of thirty years prior to that. Watch time resolve and the panorama switch because the background of trains barrels during the pages of STEAM, SMOKE AND metal: again IN TIME WITH TRAINS.
The first trains puffed nice billowing clouds of smoke and showered passengers with burning embers as they sped down the rails at a pulse-pounding twenty miles an hour! by way of the 1850's, in spite of the fact that, trains have been touring a lot swifter, a lot farther, and masses cleanser and educate shuttle contributed to the expansion of our kingdom. younger readers should be fascinated about the interesting -- and occasionally risky -- tale of trains whereas they know about different different types of engines, gear, and jobs important for working trains all through background. The younger narrator introduces readers to trains from the time of his great-great-great-great-great grandfather on the flip of the 19th century to his father's teach of this day, exhibiting the nice alterations that invention and growth have introduced over time.
Patrick O'Brien's amazing illustrations emphasize the sweetness, grandeur, and romance of the educate. exact and richly textured oil work take readers on a visit via time to experience aboard open-air autos, commute via mountain passes, and roar down the rails on high-speed bullet trains. Budding engineers will love getting a glimpse on the previous and dreaming concerning the way forward for trains.
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Example text
He set up a race: his locomotive, pulling three cars and twenty people, against a horse and carriage with three people inside. He gave the horse a small head start and then set off down the rails. Smoke came pouring out of the smokestack of the little engine, and the passengers were choked with black smoke and showered with burning embers. Ladies put up their umbrellas for protection but then had to throw them out the windows when they started to catch on fire. People were amazed that the train could actually go almost twenty miles per hour!
For Eamon, who likes wheels —P. O’B. Text and illustrations copyright © 2000 by Patrick O’Brien All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Charlesbridge and colophon are registered trademarks of Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc. com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O’Brien, Patrick, 1960– Steam, smoke, and steel: back in time with trains/Patrick O’Brien. p. cm. Summary: A boy traces the development of railroad engines from coal to steam to diesel as he recounts his family’s experience of driving trains over the years.
Locomotives—Juvenile literature. 2. Railroads—Trains—Juvenile literature. [1. Locomotives. 2. ] I. Title. 36—dc21 99-053968 Illustrations done in watercolor and gouache on watercolor paper Display type and text type set in Greco and Minion Color separations made by Eastern Rainbow, Derry, New Hampshire Printed and bound by Sung In Printing, South Korea Production supervision by Brian G. Walker Designed by Diane M.