Train: The Definitive Visual History

This is a book for adults but our five-year-old grandson is obsessed by trains, and this is an amazingly comprehensive and visually beautiful book which he will enjoy for years. He never gets tired of having it read to him and the pictures are beautiful. From the Smithsonian Museum, this book should delight the enthusiast. I’m super glad I found it for him. He stopped opening gifts to “read” this book. Enough said.

A lovely picture book that is well laid out. I liked the little shadows under each train against the white page to add a sense of weight. I did this on the 10 inch tablet and the print was just big enough for these old eyes, so wouldn't recommend the digital version on anything smaller. The layout is retained from the print book so you can't pop out the pictures to full screen, but pinching and sliding works well enough. Many pages feature half a dozen or more trains with a little heading paragraph about the category and some information about each one. This is more of a picture book than a reference book on these pages which form most of the book. There are expanded sections about individual trains and lines that are quite interesting with a fair amount of text and lots of lovely pictures. This is a take your time book that does require lots of zooming on the digital version. Worth the time and effort for a pleasant experience.

I got this book for my dad for his birthday. He loves it! It is a gorgeous book. The photos are vibrant and colorful. It’s also a lot bigger than I expected! Which is great! He can’t wait to read it. He’s starting to get more into collecting train stuff and building a setup in his basement. So this is perfect for him to reference! Definitely recommend!

This book has awesome pictures. I've been reading with my son, and we love trains. He has some tracks and toy engines. I like history, we both love pictures. I didn't realize how cool trains were until I read this. I knew they kind of cool, but this book really gets into details about specifics, which would be boring, except for the photographs and pictures on every single page. I would be surprised if someone could pick this book up and NOT find something they liked and were able to read about it in 5 or less minutes. Which brings me to my last point; the way the chapters are laid out allows you to invest very little time yet learn a lot.

DK is notorious for the high quality visual guide in several subjects - it means the main message is given by high quality printed images. This book isn't an exception: the images will talk the history by themselves - it is an Historical Visual Guide to trains! There are lots of color images and schematics including particular details that is the second best thing after to have the actual machines available for your explorations. There is a small section at the end of the book with a technical overview on tracks, brakes and engines. The texts complement cleverly the great images. Highly recommended if you are interested on trains.

I got this for a train lover in the family. Not only does it have great images, but very thorough information about trains from all over the world. My young nephew even seems to love it. A great gift for a train fan, or anyone curious to learn more.

I first read this book from the local library when I was 12 and than got it as a gift from my grandpa but I lost it like 2 years ago and bought it again This book taught me alot about how trains work and the different trains around the world But I did notice it skipped over or talked very little aboutsome countries that had a bunch of trains like South Africa & Mexico

My 7 year old nephew is obsessed with trains. Gave this book as present and he is enjoying it a lot. It is advanced for him but will grow into it. Lots of pictures for him though and he is learning to read a 1st grader

Excelente livro em todos os sentidos.

Es un libro hermoso, con ilustraciones y fotografías excelentes. Lleno de historia. Es más grande de lo que imaginaba y eso lo hace mucho más bonito.

Beautiful book!! (And heavy lol - I feel like I got my money's worth!) Big, excellent quality, vibrant colors and LOTS of pictures of REAL trains/engines (not a person's drawings). Hard cover. Bought it for my dad for Xmas and he loved it! It's become their favourite coffee table book. Great buy!! Thanks :)

An instant hit for our retired grandfather. He enjoyed hours of showing pages to his 5yo grandson, reliving railroad memories.

Beautiful book for train lovers. Great pictures and packed full of lots of stories and information on trains from around r the world. Like others, I didn’t get the prints and that said was included on the front cover of the book.Have to contact them to try to get them. Wasn’t surprised that I didn’t get them.