Tight valleys and tracks climbing into mountain saddles, long tunnels and impressive viaducts, large railway stations and mostly empty railway stations. The Czech railway is diverse and, although it suffers from many ailments, it is beautiful. And this book tries to show it exactly like that. The author has selected almost four dozen tracks, which can be said to be among the most beautiful. Each of them is accompanied by contemporary photographs of top authors who like to stand by the track, look for photogenic places and wait for the train to pass through the countryside or the station. Who among us hasn't experienced that feeling and excitement when a train passes by?

Increasingly, during similar wandering and waiting, modern trains that started to hit the tracks especially in the last ten years appear, and machines that remember the last century appear less and less. Still, mainly from spring to autumn, old steam locomotives and younger, but now museum machines ply some of the tracks - to the delight of thousands of young and old lovers of endless tracks. They are no longer just the domain of Czech Railways, a number of old vehicles and wagons are in private hands, enthusiasts have given them a second life.

In its first part, the book also tells about the colorful history of railways in the Czech lands. How the first engineers figured out without much experience and at first even without complex mathematical calculations, just with the help of intuition, where to run the railway and how to build bridges and tunnels. And how their followers created ever new innovations that today culminate in the use of modern electronics and artificial intelligence. The engaging historical description is again complemented by dozens of photographs, the vast majority of which have so far been in archives and private collections, or in Internet galleries. Altogether, the book contains almost 300 carefully selected images that could tell stories of the past and present the beauty and diversity of Czech, Moravian and Silesian railways.