Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Complete with Travelers Tales boxes, specially commissioned maps & a listing of heritage team locomotives still in action today, this exciting chronicle tells the complete story of how the Iron Horse changed the course of history.
Author : Ken Boyd
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Co
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1627005099
Historic North American Locomotives traces the historic development of North American locomotives from the early 1800s through today. Considered a photographic book with the look and feel of fine art, 100 locomotives are profiled using descriptive text and richly detailed and colored photographic imagery. A well-researched introduction provides the reader with a historical perspective. The author/photographer includes high-quality photographs, created through various techniques that vividly capture the distinctive features of the locomotives. From the 1805 Trevithick portable boiler to modern, high-speed locomotives such as the 2013 GE Genesis, the reader will enjoy viewing a variety of locomotives that are not usually shown together in one book.
Author :
Publisher : Waukesha, WI : Kalmbach Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780890242063
History and development of steam power since 1900, including railroad-by-railroad histories and rosters.
Author : Claude Wiatrowski
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 161060136X
From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great engine powering the nations growth and industry. This book celebrates the glory and grandeur of that legacy with a lavish tour of the history of the American railroad and the culture surrounding it. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, modern images, maps, timetables, tickets, brochures, and all manner of memorabilia, this volume offers a fascinating look at the rail industrys beginnings and development, as well as its place in American history. From the might of the major rail companies and their empires to the romance of rail travel, this is the full and fabulously colorful story of the industry that moved a nation--and stirs our imaginations to this day.
Author : William L. Withuhn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253039355
For nearly half of the nation's history, the steam locomotive was the outstanding symbol for progress and power. It was the literal engine of the Industrial Revolution, and it played an instrumental role in putting the United States on the world stage. While the steam locomotive's basic principle of operation is simple, designers and engineers honed these concepts into 100-mph passenger trains and 600-ton behemoths capable of hauling mile-long freight at incredible speeds. American Steam Locomotives is a thorough and engaging history of the invention that captured public imagination like no other, and the people who brought it to life.
Author : Ken Gibbs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445624257
Ken Gibbs tells the history of the engineering triumph that is a steam locomotive from the 1800s to the 1960s showing how each development changed the course of history.
Author : Tom Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 49,16 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.
Author : Alfred W. Bruce
Publisher : New York : W.W. Norton
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : David Ross
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 9781597641876
This work offers an account of where and why rail lines were built in various regions across the North American continent. It tells why the US and Canada developed distinctive forms of rail technology, different from those of Britain, where railroading originated.
Author : Frederic Winkowski
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781405475952
