When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.

Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season. Thereupon begins one of the most hilarious-and heartwarming-journeys ever told. Along...

A little blue engine comes to the rescue of a train that is loaded with toys, dolls, and good things to eat, but cannot get over the mountains to deliver the cargo to waiting children.

When Thomas the Tank Engine decides not to make his usual station stops one day, he learns that faster is not always better.

When a speedy train challenges Huff and Puff to a race, the caboose and engine must find out it slow and steady can win the race.