since the first train  was put on a track, there has been a great love for them by kids of all ages.   they're played with,  collected, decorate homes and stores.  songs and stories have been written about them,  Movies made about them.  they are even put around our christmas trees at christmas time. 

This page is dedicated to my grandsons, who love trains of every kind. May they always consider themselves the little trains that can!

one of the most well known stories about trains is

the little engine that could.

  Disney even made a record of this story.

there has been some controversy over exactly who wrote the original "little Engine that could".   this is believed to be the very first book published.

Thinking One Can. 1906. The earliest known published version appeared in Wellspring for Young People, a children's Sunday school publication. The author is unknown. This was reprinted in 1910 in a D.A.R. publication. Here is the complete version of the story as it appeared:

A little railroad engine was employed about a station yard for such work as it was built for, pulling a few cars on and off the switches. One morning it was waiting for the next call when a long train of freight-cars asked a large engine in the roundhouse to take it over the hill "I can't; that is too much a pull for me," said the the great engine built for hard work. Then the train asked another engine, and another, only to hear excuses and be refused. At last in desperation the train asked the little switch engine to draw it up the
grade and down on the other side. "I think I can," puffed the little locomotive, and put itself in front of the great heavy train.
As is went on the little engine kept bravely puffing faster and faster, "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." Then as it near the top of the grade, that had so discouraged the larger engines, it went more slowly, but still kept saying, "I--think--I--can, I--think--I--can." It reached the top by dint of brave effort and then went on down the grade, congratulating itself, "I thought I could, I thought I could."
To think of hard things and say, "I can't" is sure to mean "Nothing done." To refuse to be daunted and insist on saying, "I think I can," is to make sure of of being able to say triumphantly by and by, "I thought I could, I thought I could."

     RAILROAD CROSSING, LOOK OUT FOR THE CARS!  

            CAN YOU SPELL THAT WITHOUT ANY RS?

 

 

WE LOVE .....

 

NEW TRAINS

 

OLD TRAINS

             

         

WE JUST LOVE ALL TRAINS!

 

                                 

 

 

 

 

 

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