Category: History: Europe: 20th Century

Copyright/published Year: 1995 by Amereon House

ISBN: 0848809297

Binding: hardcover

Description: From WWII into the '70s the communist countries, lacking capital ì for dieselization, continued to build & operate steam ì locomotives. This presented a powerful attraction for steam fans. ì The authors, certifiable foamers, yielded in spite of the ì paranoid restrictions upon photography. This heavily illustrated ì (456 photos, 88 in color) survey of the Soviet Union, E. Europe, ì China, Korea, Vietnam and Cuba is a unique record of the waning ì years of a power source then virtually extinct in the West. They ì describe their tribulations, the locomotions, and present fair to ì excellent photos of the nostalgic beasts. A fine treatment for ì the fan and the student of transportation.

Steam Beneath the Red Star is an album of 456 ì photographs showing "forbidden" steam in the former Soviet Union, ì East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, ì Yugoslavia, Albania, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba.

256 pages, hardcover, 368 black and white photos, 88 color ì Plates

Condition Information

This book is new.