This manual for the 1993 Louisiana Summer Reading Program has ideas for libraries to get the summer program started. The theme is trains, and all of the ideas have something to do with this theme. The following topics are covered: (1) evaluation; (2) promotion, publicity, and programs; (3) calendar; (4) decorating the library; (5) storytime planners; (6) action stories; (7) coloring pages and handouts; (8) costumes; (9) crafts; (10) fingerplays; (11) flannelboards; (12) games, riddles, and puzzles; (13) poems; (14) puppets and puppet plays; (15) songs; (16) audiovisual materials; and (17) a resource list. (Contains 129 references.) (JLB)