The Four-cylinder Balanced Compound Locomotive
Author : Marshall Monroe Kirkman
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Locomotives
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Author : Marshall Monroe Kirkman
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Locomotives
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Author : American Locomotive Company
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Compound locomotives
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Author : Marvin White Singer
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Compound locomotives
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Author : Edward Samuel Farrow
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Locomotives
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Author : John Francis Gairns
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Compound locomotives
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Labor unions
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Railroad engineering
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Author :
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Engineering
ISBN :
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Page : 974 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
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Author : Tom Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476627932
Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became. Despite immense and sustained engineering efforts, steam locomotives remained grossly inefficient in their use of increasingly costly fuel and labor. In the end, they baffled their masters and, as soon as diesel-electric technology provided an alternative, steam locomotives disappeared from American railroads. Drawing on the work of eminent engineers and railroad managers of the day, this lavishly illustrated history chronicles the challenges, triumphs and failures of American steam locomotive development and operation.