The steam locomotives in this picture book are still able to determine what happens on the railway; powerful monsters who spit and pound their way through the countryside. But the era of electrified railways is coming closer in huge steps and sootless, smokeless trains are being pulled into a new future.
Even today, children stand, fascinated, in front of the huge steel monsters that are brought out, hissing and steaming, for pleasure trips.
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