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Steam Beneath the Red Star is a 1995 photography book that documents the final era of massive, operational steam trains in communist countries during the Cold War.Because railway systems were considered top-secret military infrastructure behind the Iron Curtain, taking pictures of them was strictly illegal. Authors Ron Ziel and Nils Huxtable traveled through the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, and Eastern Europe, risking arrest to capture 456 rare photographs of these enormous locomotives before they vanished from history