About the book: 1976 / "...According to all the laws of physics and mechanics, according to all the laws of human logic, he could not stop the train. But he stopped…” - this is how one of the heroes of the action-packed, full of drama story “Machinists”, included in this collection, showed himself. The author talks about the best representatives of the glorious army of railway workers in different periods of the country’s life: during the years of the first five-year plans, during the terrible time of war, during the days of the natural disaster in Tashkent... The theme of heroism, the nobility of the Soviet people, the theme of continuity of generations runs through the book as a red thread. This book is documentary. Only in the story “Machinists” did the composition of the narrative require some chronological shift, and acute life conflicts required the replacement of several surnames with fictitious ones.