"This collection of 4 train shows will fascinate and enthrall your little one while introducing them to this classic mode of transportation! Learn all about trains while learning your ABCs in The alphabet train. See the basics of how trains work in Awesome trains. Considering a career on the railroad? Then check out the various types of jobs from brakemen to yardmasters in I wanna be a train engineer. Finally, have some fun with model trains in I...

Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line — the first American railroad — in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods...