| American Experience- Streamliners [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Learn about these trains and how they helped shape train travel in the 1930's. From PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/ |
| Railroad Invention and History [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - History of railroad locomotive and train innovations through the years. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm |
| The American Experience: Riding the Rails [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. This site tells the stories of ten of them -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced. From PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/ |
| The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains [ Kids/Teens ] - Listen to old songs about trains, their sounds, video clips, view pictures, and read railway stories. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/kids/index-e.html |
| The Orphan Trains [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - They were designed to take their passengers to a better place, a fresh start. Features pictures and story of orphans from the cities sent out west. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/ |
| The Train Era [ Kids ] - Single-page train history and self-scoring quiz. http://www.transitpeople.org/lesson/train.htm |
| Union Pacific- It's Just Railroad Talk [ Kids/Teens ] - Learn train jargon (special words) from this train company. http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/rrtalk/ |