The Best Train Books for Kids

Seven bright freight cars gather speed until the whole train becomes a streak of color.

A family boards the new transcontinental railroad in 1869 and rides west toward the Pacific.

On Christmas Eve, a train appears in the street and carries one wakeful child north through the snow.

A stranded train full of toys needs one engine willing to pull it over the mountain.

At bedtime, bears, monkeys, elephants, and dinosaurs load one impossible freight train.

An inventor secretly builds a fan-powered railway beneath the crowded streets of 1860s New York.

A Black family rides the Silver Meteor north during the Great Migration, carrying one room’s worth of hopes.

In 1914, five-year-old May is mailed fifty-three miles by train to visit her grandmother.

A proud little locomotive abandons her schedule for one glorious, disastrous runaway day.

The story of the Black railroad workers who carried news, organized a union, and helped change American politics.

A caboose tired of smoke and noise finally gets loose — and lands exactly where she hoped.

Three children move beside a railway and discover that the trains may help bring their missing father home.

A jewel disappears aboard the royal train, and every passenger has to remain a suspect until the final stop.