Rolfs Railroad Stories

A book for people who are fascinated by rails, train stations and locomotives. With many pictures and stories from four railways, from subways and S-Bahn trains, freight and express trains, but especially from the old steam locomotives. From the sweaty profession of locomotive heater, and from the heights and lows of the modern electric locomotive driver, which he practiced for many years in Hamburg and Munich.

Kerstin Harper, Rolf Wittig's daughter, was born in Hamburg, went to school and high school there, then had to move to Munich and find a new gymnasium, where the classes were half a year ahead, and a new language catch up. She did it with diligence and fit into the new world. met an American there, her future husband, whom she followed to the USA. There she studied at Charlottsville University, married, worked in a community office near Washington DC, had children, and now lives in West Virginia.