Lyons Regional Library

The Rail Communication Handbook is intended to be a helpful resource for CDOT personnel, our rail partners from private industry, concerned parties, and public entities when addressing activities near freight rail operations. This handbook identifies rail related resources within CDOT and rail partners, outlining the roles, responsibilities, and expectations of each party; creates channels to disseminate rail information quickly and efficiently; ensures...

Discover a whole new way of looking at trains, from the old steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos to super-speeders in Japan that travel at 361 miles per hour. Also see the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles and futuristic railways in the sky.

Although he is not very big, la Pequeña Locomotora Azul agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain.

In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since smallpox killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even to those...

A boy traces the development of railroad engines from coal to steam to diesel as he recounts his family's experience of driving trains over the years.