Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow· Season 9 · Episode 9

Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

S09E09·September 26, 1991·30m·PBS

LeVar takes a train ride from California to Washington state. Along the way, we learn about trains and how the transcontinental railroad came to be. Brian Dennehy narrates the true story of how a young teen named Kate Shelley risked her life to save the engineers of a train that crashed into a river when the bridge near her home collapsed, and how she had to get word to the nearest station to alert them to stop the express train.

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