Edward Marston's The Silver Locomotive Mystery is part of his Railway Detective series, set in Britain in the 1850s. It's the sixth in the series, but I picked it up because of the lovely Early Victorian cover, and then discovered that Marston writes two other series set in interesting times (in this reader's opinion): The Restoration Series ( Read more... )

          Dover Publications used to keep three classics of the steam railroad era in print.  The first was Matthias N. Forney's The Railroad Car Builder's Pictorial Dictionary, which literally defined and illustrated every single part of a standard railroad car, from the check-chain chafing plate to the wool-packed spiral spring, via the match ( Read more... )