Wait, steam train ...

It will be about steam locomotives and their close and distant relatives. The engine is an aesthetically very successful invention, it is pleasant to look at it. And even nowadays, railways with steam locomotives have practically parted, small locomotives continue to run along toy rails, crowds of maniacs collect images and models of locomotives and cars and play computer toys about railway transport, in the jargon with the word "locomotive" that only It is not called, but “trains” with gasoline engines of internal combustion and automobile wheels drive in children's parks. A reminder of past glory. But before the locomotives were literally everywhere. They traveled through well-groomed Europe and climbed into the farthest bearish corners of endless Russia. They carried rich families to the sea, drove crowds of refugees from wars and revolutions, dragged oil tanks and artillery platforms behind them. The locomotives were even in the London subway ... (further in the blog Hrenovina.net)