Clear Track Ahead By Henry Lent Hard Cover 1936 Children's Book
Clear Track Ahead By Henry Lent Hard Cover 1932 84 Pages One page has a small crease, a few areas of minor spotting.
CLEAR the track! Here comes the fast freight around the curve. "Who-o-o-o! Who-o-o-o!" Feel how the platform trembles as the heavy steel wheels rush down the shining track. Hear them pounding . . . clickety-clickety-click! The big locomotive roars by with a hissing of steam. The engineer has one hand on the throttle. He leans from the cab window, his eyes fixed on the track ahead.
One by one the freight cars thunder by. Coal cars, sand cars, stock cars, tank cars, box cars, refrigerator cars. Black cars, red cars, yellow and white. One, two, three, four, five . . . on they come. Look! Here's the last car, the caboose. That makes eighty-seven cars! See the brakeman waving his hand from the window of the caboose as the long train passes and fades in the distance.
Isn't it exciting! Would you like to know something about the men who work on a railroad? What does an engineer do? Who was the man with him in the cab? How about the men in the funny little caboose? Who hitches freight cars together? Who turned on the red signal just as the train whizzed by? What causes a "hot box"? What happens when a train jumps the track? Why do men sometimes walk along the tops of the freight cars? What is a "third rail"? How does a locomotive turn around?
Perhaps as you read these stories you will discover the answers to many of the questions you have always wanted to ask when you saw the fast freight thundering down a clear track.
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