Curated OER
Businesses and Communities on the Move
For this American transportation history worksheet, students read about various forms of transportation and respond to 16 multiple choice and short answer questions regarding trains, streetcars, automobiles, and trucks.
Curated OER
Tracer Pages: Train Locomotive
In this hand eye coordination worksheet, students trace the dotted lines to create a picture of a train locomotive. Students color the picture.
Curated OER
A Train to Somewhere
In this word search puzzle worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to taking a train on trip somewhere. There are ten words located in the puzzle.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Trains
Get answers to frequently asked questions about trains. For example, what is a steam train and what parts of a train make it move?
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Locomotives
Get a glimpse into the history of Canada's railways and explore how the locomotive influenced transportation in the country. See some of the important advancements in locomotive technology in Canada from 1900 to 1960.
Other
Rob's North York Moors Railway: The Steam Locomotive
A page describing the parts of a steam engine and explaining their operation. Thorough discussion of the parts.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive by Victor Appleton
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1922, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...
New York Times
New York Times: George Seurat: The Drawings
A video slide show of George Seurat's drawings: "Woman Reading in the Studio," "Tree by a Road," "Lighthouse at Honfleur," "Pierre and Colombine," "Drawbridge," "The Ragpicker," "Antique Statue, Satyr With Goat," and others. Narrator...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: How Did You Do It? Moving 1401 Into the Museum
In 1961, the Museum acquired its heaviest object ever. See how the Southern Railway locomotive 1401 was moved into the Museum.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: The Case Files: History of Transportation Technologies
A history of transportation technologies, and the individuals who led the way in developing and advancing new modes of transportation.
Britain Express
Britain Express: George Stephenson Biography
This site from Britain Express provides a biography of George Stephenson (1781-1848 CE), inventor of the the railway system in Europe.
Curated OER
Stamps
An extraordinarily rich collection of photos, stereographs, engravings, maps, and documents. Many 19th century accounts of building and traveling on the railroad, plus travel guides and government documents.