– by Leo Tolstoy. Train travel is arguably the most prominent motif of the story. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – features the train the Taggart Comet. The Boundless – a novel by Kenneth Oppel set in a train called the Boundless. "The Celestial Railroad" – short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Choo Choo: The Story of a Little Engine Who Ran Away (book, episode adaptation in Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories) – a children's book by Virginia Lee Burton. The adventures of a beautiful little locomotive who decided to run away from her humdrum duties. Commonwealth Saga – a novel series featuring huge, nuclear-powered trains for interstellar travel (through artificial wormholes). The Dark Tower (book series) by Stephen King – the main character Roland of Gilead travels through a series of caves which were once part of an underground railroad system. The characters also ride on a monorail with artificial intelligence. The Devil's Horse, The Poison Tree and The Abyss in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' The Morland Dynasty series feature the development of steam power and the first railways in Britain. Dreadnought – the third novel in Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century series, where the main character rides on a Union war locomotive called the Dreadnought. It is used by the Union to terrorize Confederate rail traffic. It is a warship on rails, with a heavily armored engine, plenty of automated guns, and a complement of troops on board. The Engine Woman’s Light by Laurel Anne Hill – a spirits-meet-steampunk novel about the heroic journey of a young Latina in an alternate 19th-century California, where trains are used to transport undesirables to a dreaded asylum. Freedom Express – the seventh novel in the Wingman series by Mack Maloney features a ten-mile-long super-train that is heavily armored, heavily armed and carries members of the heroic Post-Apocalyptic Badass Army that protects what remains of America. Galaxy Express 999 – from the manga and anime of the same name by Leiji Matsumoto; this train travels the galaxy from planet to planet. Iron Council (book) by China Miéville – a fantasy novel about the building of a cross-continental railway line. Jim Stringer: Steam Detective – series of mystery novels by Andrew Martin set on various British railway lines. La Bête humaine – (novel) by Émile Zola, filmed five times, e.g. as Cruel Train Greatwinter Trilogy – book series featuring trains powered by wind turbines and trains powered by