If we are to judge books by their covers, I wouldn't think this one is too accurate 
I believe that's an Italian locomotive. At least it never ran in Philadelphia.
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I'm speechless...
Rusty
LOL, It looks like Mr. Duffy didn't do his history homework...
I imagine if you Googled steam locomotives, no images of an American locomotive would appear. At least it seems that way. There was a Johnny Cash poster or album cover with Johnny pasted in front of a German Pacific. Yep, nothing rarer than an image of an American locomotive.
Um . . . I'm with Rusty.
DO judge a book by it's cover. Unless.....currently there is a suburb of Athens named Philadelphia all the way back from Biblical times. It's not so much a name as it is an expression "Brotherly love". Maybe a Greek locomotive??
The author probably had zero input to the cover design. Blame the publisher.
If this was another case of getting train details wrong in a movie, I'd say it's just the usual suspects being nerds again in their criticisms, but it's pretty sad when on the cover of a book with this title..
I guess Edward just likes Italian things ….. women, food, wine, steam locomotives
How else can you explain it? lol
Who is the stugots publisher? They need a good kick in the tender for that heresy. Is MTH making that train?
The cover designer must've been eating an Italian beef sandwich instead of a Philly cheesesteak sandwich at the time...
Rusty
Usually it's the other way around...American steam on the cover, British steam inside, with a generic title. There is a movie, "Once Upon A Time In America" that has a British steam train in Grand Central Terminal, NYC.
