Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts, this title captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting.

Catalog of an exhibition entitled: 'Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960,' at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Apr. 18-Aug. 10, 2008 and at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Sept. 13, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009.

The railway age : an introduction / Michael Freeman -- The railway and literature : realism and the phantasmagoric / Matthew Beaumont -- The formative years in Europe / Ian Kennedy -- The human drama of the railway / Julian Treuherz -- Crossing continents : America and beyond / Ian Kennedy -- Impressionism and post-impressionism / Ian Kennedy -- States of mind / Julian Treuherz -- The machine age / Julian Treuherz and Ian Kennedy.