10 Simple Rephrasings of "Trains don’t steer: they go wherever the rails take them" — for a 7-year-old

That sentence means trains can’t turn on their own — they follow the tracks. Here are 10 easy ways to say the same thing:

• Trains can’t steer; they follow the tracks.
• A train can’t turn like a car; it stays on the rails.
• Trains go only where the tracks lead.
• The rails tell the train which way to go.
• Trains must stay on the tracks, so they go where the tracks go.
• A train rides along the rails and doesn’t steer.
• The train follows the line of tracks, not its own steering.
• Where the rails go, the train goes.
• Tracks decide the train’s path.
• Trains stay on the rails and go the way the rails point.