Steam for Pleasure is the first comprehensive international guide to what has become both the obsessive leisure interest of
hundreds of thousands of people and a huge tourist industry.
 Steam for Pleasure includes all relevant organizations, and about a hundred of the most important are described in detail:
their history, topography, operations and above all the steam locomotives to be seen and driven behind on them. The book falls
into five parts: a brief historical introduction, followed by detailed sections on North America, Europe, the United Kingdom and Eire the rest of the world.In an appendix, the book includes a table giving essential information on most operations,
including minor lines not mentioned in the text.