This book contains over 150 superb photos of steam powered passenger trains in all regions of the system taken by the best photographers covering the road. Author Curt Tillotson has organized the photographs and details the images with extensive captions explaining the train, the geography, and the overall operation being shown. Special chapters cover Southern's mountain lines over the Saluda grade and the Swannoah line. This will be an ideal book for anyone interested in the South and in the nostalgic steam locomotives that the line operated.