Reading Rainbow

Season 9 Episode 9: Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

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.

Genre:

Kids

Seasons:

21

Episodes:

155

Cast:

LeVar Burton

Quality:

HD

Duration:

30 min

First Air:

1983

Rating:

8.4