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It will be about steam locomotives and their close and distant relatives. Locomotive- aesthetically very successful invention, it is nice to look at it. And although in our time the railroads with steam locomotives have practically broken up, small trains still run on toy rails, crowds of maniacs collect images and models of steam locomotives and wagons and play computer toys about railway transport, in the jargon with the word “steam locomotive” that only It’s not called, and in the parks of the children “trains” ride with gasoline internal combustion engines and car wheels. A reminder of past glory. But before steam locomotives were literally everywhere. They traveled around well-groomed Europe and climbed into the farthest bear corners of boundless Russia. They drove wealthy families to the sea, drove crowds of refugees from wars and revolutions, dragged oil tanks and artillery platforms with them. Steam locomotives were even in the London subway ...(further on the blog Khrenovina.net)