Railways... This term conjures different images for everyone. Some think of their last Sunday trip on a local train, others of a practical "car train" to the Adriatic Sea, and yet others of a modern "Pendolino" train... Because railways are the epitome of diversity. The captivating world of tracks is a probe into this diversity. Within the pages of the book, we learn the route of our first horse-drawn railway, where the "slightly different trains" traveled, how the most commonly used railway gauge was created and how long it is, and where we can ride on "narrow" or "jagged" tracks. At the station, we buy a ticket, board a steam, diesel, or electric locomotive train, wait for the "green light," and through mountains and across rivers, we set off to explore the mundane and interesting aspects of our railway. Safe travels... The book by Pavel Schreier, supplemented with a number of period photographs, indirectly follows the already published work "The Birth of Railways in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia."
