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Reading Rainbow
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
The subject of this episode is the railroad and trains. Host LeVar Burton takes a train ride "just for fun" and gives tour of the train's many sections-the dining car, coach, observation car, and sleeper. At the Los Angeles train yard he visits with an engineer who explains how trains run. In "Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express", read by Brian Dennehy, Kate couragiously saves the passengers of the midnight express when shes races to the station in during a storm to worn the conductor that the brige over Honey creek washed out. A song about the trainscontinetal railroad offers a little history lesson. Kids review the following books about trains: "The Train to Lulus'", "The Little Engine That Could" and "The Polar Express".
 
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CC - Closed Caption
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LTR - Letterbox
DVI - Descriptive Video Information for the visually impaired