What are trains?

A train is a big group of connected cars that move along special tracks to carry people or things from one place to another.

Imagine you're on a playground, and you have a long line of toy cars. Each car can hold either your toys or your friends. Now imagine the whole line starts moving because someone pushes it, like when you give a gentle push to a swing. That's kind of how trains work! The first car is called the engine, and it gives the train its power, just like your push makes the toy cars move.

Some trains carry people, just like a school bus carries kids. Others carry things, like boxes full of toys or bags of food. You can think of them as really big shopping carts that zoom along tracks, which are like super-long roads made for trains to roll on.

Trains stop at places called stations, where people get off and on, just like how you get off the bus when it stops at your school.