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Running out of Steam : & Catching Up with Diesels, Paperback / softback Book

Running out of Steam : & Catching Up with Diesels Paperback / softback

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Historians, locomotive buffs, anyone interested in the history of Australias railways, those with a love of steam as motive power, a perfect gift for all generations, buyers of locomotive books, those interested in graphic art, social historians, Australiana.

The book: Through posters, prints and postcards, our railways tell their story.

Each State is covered, and maps are included showing the extent of the rail network.

This is a wonderful history of the steam era coming to an end and the rise of diesels. Using contemporary advertising material, timetables, photographs and other printed ephemera, combined with primary source material the author has created a nostalgic journey of railways and those who worked there. Every state is covered as well as Commonwealth Railways. There are chapters on some of the great personalities who steered the railways into the era of diesel. st during World War II, and among the local population, what happened when the enemy came ashore.

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