Mountain Enginemen. By Tom Masterson. Hardback 1st edition
Mountain Enginemen. By Tom Masterson. Hardback 1st edition
Hardback near fine condition minor shelf wear. Dust jacket two small closed tears to back of jacket. Publisher: Collins 1973 1st edition
The steam age on the railways is remembered with nostalgia and here the author recalls his days on the footplate on many steam locomotives operated by NZ Railways. Told in a free-flowing style his story is peppered with anedotes, humour. the hard times of the Depression while set against a background of the State rail system and the men who operated it, particularly in the mountainous central North Island area.