The Streamlined Locomotive

The Streamlined Locomotive is a gripping book that follows the story of Theopolis, who is set to modify his way of life to get his family’s support and maintain his position of power. Uncle Throckmorton P. Bezelbottom expects him to develop a streamlined steam engine for the county’s two-bit third-rate feeder railroad. If he doesn’t perform, he will lose his riches and preferred family place. Can Theo develop a streamlined steam engine? Readers will be delighted to know his whole story in this humorous and satirical book.

This book describes the unusual and unique adventures they have had separately and together, both during the war and afterwards. When the war ends, they get together in the United States of America, where their further adventures include flying onto a mesa, which is fully occupied by a technologically sophisticated native tribe, meeting up with a ghost squadron of dead pilots from the war, and organizing an early airline.