Remembering Train Rides
with 2 media presentation formats:
Slide/Tape, & VHS.

Order both formats or  a single format.  Be sure to specify when you order.

Not too long ago trains criss-crossed this country, whizzing passengers to their destinations. Now one songwriter worries about the day his young son will ask him, "Daddy, what's a train?" "Ideal for intergenerational study of train rides themselves or the myriad topics that, like trunk lines, branch out from it." Donna Barkman, in Learning from the Past

Manual. Includes general and specific program information, a suggested list of books and media, and fun program ideas like how to serve a dinner in the diner.

• Manual TR214 $24

Slide/tape and video. Punctuated with music, sound effects, and interview quotes; "All Aboard!" takes viewers on a whistle-stop tour of train rides. This one goes from Chicago to Minneapolis in 1977. Visuals of scenery, depots, and train cars - inside and out - evoke the feelings of anticipation, friendliness, and pleasure that many people associate with railroad travel. The kit includes 80 slides in a carousel tray with a taped narration and a 20-minute video.

• 80 slides in box TR100 $80
• Cassette tape #1 TR403 $12
• VHS video TR123 $60

Cassette tape or CD. Four sing-along songs: Wabash Cannonball, Casey Jones, I've Been Working on the Railroad, and On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. Six Railroad Ballads on side 2.

• Tape #2 TR404 $12
• CD TR504 $15

25 Booklets. Pull a Lung! is slang for "to pull a drawbar to uncouple cars" and it's the title of the large-print booklet in this kit. Inside are three poems, a menu from the diner on the 1937 Super Chief, four sing-along songs, and ten more examples of authentic "train talk" - with definitions.

• One booklet TR232 $5
• Ten booklets TR232 $30
• 25 booklets TR232 $60

Sing-Along Set. One copy of the booklet, with Tape #2 or CD, together with the manual pages for the booklet and the tape or CD. Conveniently packaged.

• Booklet, tape, and guide TR299 $22
• Booklet, CD, and guide TR295 $25

Jokes. Two sets of large-print jokes with a narrative to allow them to be done as a club routine.

• Two sets TR302 $8

Skit. There are parts here for three characters, and two of them want to know When is the Train Due? The third character is the station agent, reading lines from behind a large-print newspaper.

• Four scripts and newspaper TR301 $8

Cap and hat. The female lead in the skit wears an old hat. The station agent is outfitted with an official engineer's cap.

• Engineer's cap TR673 $16

Things to Touch. Includes a current schedule, an Amtrak menu, and a laminated copy of the 1937 Super Chief menu. A route map of national rail lines in large format is laminated and ready to trace remembered trips with a non-permanent marker.

• Complete set of Things to Touch above TR699 $25

Kit bag. Holds everything together in a convenient carrying case of navy blue and yellow vinyl.  Includes window pocket and luggage tag labels.

• Kit bag TR701 $40

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