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Steam Trains of the World By Colin Garratt Dust Jacket
Steam Trains of the World By Colin Garratt Dust Jacket Copyright 1987 256 Pages
Steam Trains of the World was inspired by the travels of two photographers and a journalist, all steam enthusiasts, and the lifelong collection of Colin Garratt, the British archivist and railway expert. Until-now unpublished photographs and information were collected from over ten years of traveling and compiling, and the resulting book is the culmination of dedicated and meticulous research.
From the British Isles and the Middle East, from Russia and China and the Ocean Islands of Australasia, pictures of the highest quality have been included to present a lavish illustration of living steam. Here are facts and tales about the lines operating today, the landscapes they cross and the cargos they haul. Here also are detailed commentaries on the world's magnificent engines, documented with a clear guide as to where throughout the world they can be found.
Some of the great stories of railway building, the adventures, disasters and triumphs during the early years of pioneering are related alongside all the technical detail of engine capacity, size, type and class, with origin of design and the builders' names. Nothing is left out of this world-wide book on the greatest transport form man ever created.
Cohn Garratt is one of the world's foremost authorities on steam locomotion, with twenty years of collecting photographing and lecturing behind him. His aim is to complete his archive of material before each of the best and most important steam locomotives disappears. In this race against time, he is constantly traveling, frequently to some of the remotest parts of the world.
Freshly returned from northern China a month before the book went to press, the author brought with him expressly for these pages completely new pictures of a railway system that is the finest of all. There is little he does not know about the world of steam - and everything has been included in this book.
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