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As we traveled about visiting railroad museums, stations, gift shops, and book stores, we kept our eyes open for children's railroad and train books. We started the library with about 7 titles geared for children, and a handful more that are adult level.
Children's Titles
- Trains, First Discovery Book (series), Jeanesse and Prunier, Scholastic Inc., 1995.
- Trains, Eye Openers (series), Dorling Kindersley Books, 1991.
- Train, Eyewitness Books (series), John Coiley, Darling Kindersley, 1992.
- Trains: Traveling Through Time, Neil Morris, Silver Burdett Press, 1997.
- Trains and Railroads, See and Explore (series), Sydney Wood, DK Publishing, 1998.
- Big Book of Trains, National Railway Museum, York, England, DK Publishing, 1998.
- The Railroad Book, E. Boyd Smith, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.
- Ultimate Train, Peter Herring, Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
- Ten Mile Day and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad, Mary Ann Fraser, Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
- The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper, Platt & Munk, 1976.
Adult Titles
- Railroads of the Santa Maria Valley, Hal Madson, Olive Press, 2001.
- The Pacific Coast Railway: Central California's Premier Narrow Gauge, Westcott and Johnson, Benchmark Production Ltd, 1998.
- Tickets, Please: All About California Railroads, Dolan Eargle, Jr., California Living Books, 1979.
- The Steam Locomotive, Jim Boyd, MetroBooks, 2000.
- Iron Horses, Michael Del Vecchio, Courage Books, PRC Publishing Ltd, 2000.
- The Railroad: What It Is, What It Does, John H, Armstrong, Simmons-Boardman Books, Inc., 1998.
- The Engine Driver's Manual, Brian Topping, Oxford Publishing Co., 2000. (How to prepare, fire, and drive a steam locomotive.)
- Santa Maria Historical Photo Album, Phil Ault, ed., Santa Maria Valley Historical Society, 1987.
- The Good Years: Snippets of Santa Maria Valley History, Shirley Contreras, Santa Maria Valley Historical Society, 2001.
- Classic Trains, Hans Halberstadt, MetroBooks, 2001.
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