The Orphan Trains
- They were designed to take their passengers to a better place, a fresh start. Features pictures and story of orphans from the cities sent out west. PBS.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/

Railroad Invention and History
- History of railroad locomotive and train innovations through the years.
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm

The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains
- Listen to old songs about trains, their sounds, video clips, view pictures, and read railway stories.
- http://www.collectionscanada.ca/trains/kids/index-e.html

The Train Era
- Single-page train history and self-scoring quiz.
- http://www.transitpeople.org/lesson/train.htm

American Experience- Streamliners
- Learn about these trains and how they helped shape train travel in the 1930's. From PBS.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/

The American Experience: Riding the Rails
- At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. This site tells the stories of ten of them -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced. From PBS.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/