(upbeat music)
(whistling) (harp noise)
- [Penny] Today, we're at a Railroad Museum.
Museums are places that have interesting collections
of things.
This museum has a very interesting collection of trains.
- Hi Guys, welcome to The Gold Coast Rail Road Museum.
- Hi. - I'm Laurie.
- Hi Laurie.
- And what's your name?
- Nicholas. - Hi Nicholas.
And, you are?
- Chloe. - Hi Chloe,
nice to meet you both.
Sir.
We're gonna learn lots of things about trains today.
Are you guys ready? - [Family] Yes.
- Alright, we're gonna have a great time.
Wanna come this way?
We'll start with some locomotives.
This is the 153 steam locomotive.
They used to use steam locomotives a long time ago,
and a locomotive is just an engine that pulls the train.
And, it has an engine in it just like
the front of your parents' car.
- [Nicholas] What's the engineer for?
- [Laurie] The engineer drives the train.
He sits in the front and the conductor takes care
of the safety of the rest of the train.
He usually rides in the back.
There's lots of different kinds of trains,
and another kind of train is a freight train.
And a freight train can carry your toys,
it can carry your food, it can even carry your mail.
Just about everything in your life has been
on a train at least once.
- [Penny] So, the locomotive is the first car
on every train?
- [Laurie] It is, and it can pull all kinds of cars.
There can be a passenger car, or a freight car,
they even have a caboose where the crew can ride.
So you guys wanna go check out some different trains?
- [Nicholas] Yes! - [Laurie] Alright!
Each car has a different purpose.
- [Penny] What kind of cars are attached to the train?
- [Laurie] Well, you might have passenger cars,
and there's several types of passenger cars.
You might have one that just has seats in it,
where everybody gets to sit when they take a train ride,
or you might have what we call a sleeper car
and it has beds in it.
It's really fun.
There are cars that they call lounge cars
and you can just kinda hang out and relax,
maybe have a juice.
There's all kinds of passenger cars.
There's a caboose right there!
A red caboose.
- [Penny] It's the last car on a train.
- [Laurie] That's right.
- [Penny] What is inside?
Let's see.
Wow, look at this!
- [Nicholas] What is this for?
- The caboose is for the conductor.
The conductor might come and check your tickets,
he might step outside and call all aboard
for everybody at a station,
he has lots of different jobs.
The conductor would ride back here
and he could look out the windows
and make sure nothing was wrong with the train.
- It looks good.
- [Laurie] And they could also take a break back here.
(bell ringing)
(train whistling)
- [Penny] Do you hear that? - [Nicholas] That's a whistle.
- [Penny] That's right.
That whistle means a train is coming.
- [Laurie] Trains are very large and heavy
and take a long time to stop.
So if you see any of these signs you need to stop,
look, and listen.
- [Penny] This is where trains cross the street.
(bell ringing)
R and R means rail road.
Railroad is a compound word.
It is two words combined to make one word.
Rail and road.
Together they make,
railroad. - [Children] Railroad
- [Penny] Watch out for trains if you see this sign.
(train horns)
(upbeat amusement park music) (murmuring)
- [Laurie] This is a collection of model railroads
and they're just like the trains that we saw outside,
only they're smaller.
They still have the locomotive and the cars
and the caboose.
There's a locomotive.
- A locomotive!
- Caboose!
- [Penny] Let's put this train set in the right order.
Which car goes first?
- [Chloe] This one.
- That's right, that's the locomotive.
That's where the engine is and it pulls all the other cars.
And what's next, where do the people sit?
- [Nicholas] Passenger car.
- [Laurie] Good job, this is a passenger car.
- And which is the last car?
- [Chloe] Caboose.
- [Laurie] The caboose is for the conductor.
- [Penny] This is where they could rest
and talk and eat.
- [Laurie] The train's gonna be pulling in any minute now.
(train whislting) - [Penny] That's our train.
We better hurry.
The engineer communicates with the whistle.
The whistle tells people that he's coming.
(bell ringing) (train whistling)
Thank you Laurie for teaching us all about trains.
- You're very welcome Penny,
and I thank you all for coming,
and I hope you have a great day.
(train steaming)
(whistling) (harp noise)
(upbeat music)