The Train That Vanished

by Mr Steve Schlager

A coal mine train carrying payroll for thousands of miners vanishes in Southern Illinois. At the same time, Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic and a locally famous hotel mysteriously burns to the ground. The train is a mystery, until now.

162 pages, Paperback

Published December 29, 2017

Reviews

[Cody Jackson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed the story; it kept me entertained and was hard to put down. The reason this book only received 3 stars was the editing. I can’t count how many grammatical errors were in this book including misspellings; but the biggest issue was the seemingly random lack of capitalized proper nouns (john Deere, Williamson county Historical Society, etc.). In one chapter, the author confused New Jersey with North Carolina. In the same chapter, he wrote that a plane was flying 500 miles per hour at 3,000 ft altitude. FAA regulations state that under 10,000 ft you must stay below 250 knots (~ 300 mph).