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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.— ArtsPower's "The Little Engine That Could Earns Her Whistle" will come to the Long Center in downtown Lafayette at 3 p.m. Oct. 13. The performance is presented by Purdue ...

A Merry Engine is pulling cars filled with toys and food for the good boys and girls when it cannot go any further. The little clown asks some other Engines for help but all of them refuse to pull the ...

Little Blue Engine dreams of someday leaving the train yard to pull the big cars on the main line track. But can she convince Big Silver that she is worthy of being a main line engine? ArtsPower ...

When the other engines refuse, the Little Blue Engine tries to pull a stranded train full of toys and good food over the mountain.

“Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the little blue engine. ‘I think I can—I think I can—I think I can . . .’ ” Over the mountain at last, with its load of Christmas toys for the children on the other side, ...

Was "I think I can" the grandmother of "lean in?" Some readers see the plucky locomotive as a parable about working women, but in some versions of... In 'Little Engine That Could,' Some See An Early ...