Books With Trains In Them

One of Cussler's early novels, Night Probe, make extensive use of a train but in a very unconventional way.  It was one of the early Dirk Pitt books before they became formulaic and repetitive.

Murder on the Orient Express.

By Agatha Christie

A famous children's book is "The Railway Children" by Edith Nesbit. Also Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens and La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola.

A list: https://www.theguardian.com/bo...s-zola-andrew-martin

  I'm assuming you mean books of fiction - for non-fiction first person accounts of railroad work the list is very long (I have about 150 of them)

Novels

The Boomer. A Story of the Rails - Bedwell

The Daughter of a Magnate - Spearman

Foamers - Berson

The General Manager's Story - Hamblen 

Snow on the Headlight - Warman

Tracks - A Novel in Stories - Goodman

Whispering Smith - Spearman

The Wire Devils - Packard

Short Story Collections

Held For Orders - Spearman

The Nerve of Foley - Spearman

Along the Line - Swan

Headlights and Markers: An Anthology of Railroad Stories - Donovan

The Night Operator - Packard

The Roundhouse Cat and Other Railroad Animals - Hubbard

Running Special - Packard

Short Lines: A Collection of Classic American Railroad Stories - Johnson

Short Rails - Warman

  For me, the best of the group are: The General Manager's Story, The Wire Devils, Held For Orders, The Night Operator, and Short Lines: A Collection of Classic American Railroad Stories

Was there a children's book: The Little Engine That Could?

The Christmas Train by David Baldacci.

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton.

-Greg

NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD by Steven Ambrose is the good, the bad and the ugly about the CP and UP constructing the transcontinental world.

TEN TURTLES FOR TUCUMCARI is a good read about the Railway Express Agency.

John

I just googled it for some ideas.  Here are two links:

https://www.goodreads.com/list...ck_trains_in_fiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...transport_in_fiction

-Greg

The children's books;

The Roundabout Train

A Train for Tommy.

Von Ryan’s Express - David Westheimer. Personally, I found it better than the movie (which was pretty good too).

The Edge by Dick Francis

Actually, if you want a fairly complete listing of both novels and short stories involving trains you should check out a copy of The Railroad in American Fiction - Burns

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Was there a children's book: The Little Engine That Could?

Yes there is. Read it to my younger brother who is now 62, my three grown daughters and now to my grandchildren.

The original Ian Fleming Bond books often featured trains whereas the movies left the trains out.  I actually wish the Fleming story lines were used in several of these:

• The Man with the Golden Gun:  The final scene when Bond and Scaramanga chase each other takes place on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean and features a narrow gauge steam powered locomotive.
• Diamonds are Forever:  The book is straight forward story about diamond smuggling and the Las Vegas mob.  The book climaxes with Bond and the mob boss chasing each other in American Standard locomotives on a private railroad that the mob boss owned.
• Gold Finger:  At the end Bond and his leading lady take the Southern Crescent back to DC in the book version.  There were no private jets when the book was written.
• From Russia with Love:  The movie is very close to the book with the exception of the very end.  A good part of it takes place on the Orient Express.

A children's book written by my cousin.

You'd think that SOMEONE here would say "The Polar Express". It was a book LONG before the movie.

@artyoung posted:

You'd think that SOMEONE here would say "The Polar Express". It was a book LONG before the movie.

Good catch.   Lol my now 36 yo daughter is still trying to get me to watch the movie.  Haven’t read the book yet either.  Oh well...