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K-Gr 4—Hoyt and Szalay's words and pictures respectively recreate a noble idea followed by a miraculous set of circumstances, including the right people in the right place at the right time, who set it in motion. Anyone who has ever set foot into Grand Central Terminal in New York City knows what an iconic hub it has become. But who had the vision? William J. Wilgus was a chief engineer who saw that the coal-powered trains were part of a gigantic, city-clogging problem, and when two trains crashed and 55 people were "injured or worse," he set about inventing trains that would be steam-powered and require electricity. He also came up ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More