The Steel Animal

Klaassen receives a phone call and he is happy with his transfer to head the railway lines controlling team He accepts well his change of job but when he meets his coworkers uncultured and rough people he starts having second thoughts However he takes it easy recognizes that theyre highly trained works and teaches them a number of flashback stories of pioneers of the present steam train the early invention by Denis Papin 1679 the three legendary landsurveyors of Caton Hill the 1769 experiment by NicolasJoseph De Cugnot the 1813 machine test of William Hedley the 1829 developments by Robert Stephenson and finally the grand opening of the first German steam railway line of NürnbergFürth stories in which mans will to conquer the machine was sometimes met with disaster