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Author
Series
Trains That Changed The World volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Flying Scotsman was the first train to break the 100mph barrier - a remarkable steam engine built in 1923 that revolutionized travel within the UK and inspired the world to use trains for high-speed transport.
Author
Series
Trains That Changed The World volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Industrial Revolution was the single most important event in the development of the modern railway and one train from that era came to symbolize the new age of steam: Stephenson's Rocket.
Author
Series
Trains That Changed The World volume 2
Language
English
Description
The London Underground - first operating in 1863 - changed the way we get around cities forever, driving people deep underground to clear congested streets.
Author
Series
Trains That Changed The World volume 4
Language
English
Description
In this episode, we travel aboard the GWR to experience a journey of a by-gone age.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Director Danny Boyle thrills in this 'original, daring' tale of a group of young drug addicts wheeling through blue collar Edinburgh that earned an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Trainspotting electrified audiences and critics with its hilariously dark humor, stunning visuals and sharp honest take on both the exhilarating highs, and the terrifying lows, of addiction.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Young minister Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society, sending orphans west to begin new lives with farm families. Until 1929, Brace's Society and other charities sent more than 150,000 neglected children by train to 47 states.
Publisher
Marshall Pub. and Promotions
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An exciting program featuring the ground-pounding sounds and close-up views of giant steam and diesel engines that shake the ground as they thunder on by. The blasts of the air horns and the shrill calls of the steam whistles are guaranteed to run chills up and down the spine. With no narration to interrupt, it's just like being right by the tracks, only better!
9) Bullet train
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe, all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives, on the world's fastest train.
10) Amazing Trains
Author
Language
English
Description
What's faster than cars and even faster then some planes' Amazing Trains! Follow ChooChoo and his pals as they take kids through an educational adventure into the world of trains. Hitch a ride to this caboose and take a journey through the history of trains from steam engines to modern TGVs.
11) Unstoppable
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.
12) Snowpiercer
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The Pteranadon kids hop on the tracks with their next big idea. Buddy, Tiny and Mom gather all the dinosaurs for an A-Z Picnic at Troodon Town. All dinosaurs join, from the fastest, to the smallest dinosaurs, it is a true learning experience as Tiny leads the group in a fun, rousing, and historic singing of the Dinosaurs A to Z song!
Author
Language
English
Description
Train fans it's time for Lots & Lots of Big Steam Trains Galore - over 60 minutes of big steam trains in action, real live train sounds, lively music, fun sing-along songs, and an exciting bonus learning video - All About the Caboose. See UP Big Boy, Daylight Express and other steam trains huffing and puffing down the track. Music by James Coffey. You, your children and grandchildren will love it.
Author
Language
English
Description
It's a colorful, entertaining and educational wooden toy train adventure featuring lots of action, real train sounds, fun sing-along songs, lively music, bloopers, Thomas and more! See the trains go fast and slow and blow through snow, up and down and all across the ground, thru tunnels, around curves, and past cities and farms. Toddlers will love the action accessories, Amtrak trains and more!
Author
Series
Kidsongs volume 1
Language
English
Description
Billy, Ruby and all the Kidsongs Kids kick off the new season with a show about transportation! Special Guest: Bob Kredel from the California Historical Train Association. Songs include: Loco-Motion, Little Red Caboose, Car Car Song and more!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris. It was an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends₂ lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.