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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Loco Profile written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Reed
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Locomotives in Profile written by Brian Reed and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445677628
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Locomotives of the Victorian Railway written by Anthony Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.
Author : John Woodhams
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399071971
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book William Adams: His Life and Locomotives written by John Woodhams and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Adams (1823 – 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms were the culmination of career which began formally in marine engineering, including a period at sea with the Royal Sardinian Navy, encompassed civil engineering and surveying before joining the North London Railway as locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent. He has been described as the father of the suburban train, an inventive engineer, who pioneered the use of continuous train brakes, developed well designed, free-steaming locomotive boilers for services requiring rapid acceleration and frequent stops, and his invention of a bogie with controlled side-play revolutionized future locomotive design. His next move was to the Great Eastern Railway where his designs met with mixed success, before moving south of the Thames to Nine Elms. Here, over five hundred locomotives were built to his designs, with his later express classes regarded by many as his greatest achievement. Adams also proved himself a very capable designer in developing locomotive and carriage works at all three railways, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This book tells the story of a genial man with a love of music, who was undoubtedly one of the finest late Victorian locomotive engineers.
Author : Jim Pike
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Locomotive Names written by Jim Pike and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of locomotive names for railway enthusiasts. As well as alphabetically listing engine names, the author provides details of the number, the class or wheel arrangement, the date of introduction and the identity of the owning railway company. Incidental details - including the gauge, changes in ownership, secondary names and nicknames - are also recorded, as well as, where possible, the location of the engine if it has been preserved. Photographs of some of the most famous and some of the most unusual locomotives are provided, along with concise definitions of the technical terms employed and notes on the various classes of locomotive concerned. The book covers named engines from the pioneering days of steam to the high-tech locomotives of the present day.
Author : Simon Bolton
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785001426
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Scratch-Building Model Railway Tank Locomotives written by Simon Bolton and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume tells you everything you need to know about how to build an 00 gauge Tilbury Tank locomotive or, indeed, any similar type of tank. Written in an engaging, encouraging and easily understable style, this new work is a worthy successor to the author's first book, Scratch-Building Model Railway Locomotives, which was short-listed for the Ian Allan Railway Book of the Year Awards in 2014. Containing scale diagrams, step-by-step photos, sketches and specially commissioned artwork, the book celebrates the history of Tilbury Tanks and demonstrates a range of different techniques that will prove invaluable in constructing models of these charismatic little locomotives. If you have not yet taken the plunge and begun scratch-building, or if you want to complement your growing scratch-building skills and knowledge, this is the book for you. Considers how to begin the process of scratch-building a particular prototype, with particular reference to problem-solving and research; discusses the tools, products and materials used to build the model and examines how to complement scratch-building with etched parts and castings; covers the more complex tools and jigs that are employed for impressing rivets, rolling boilers and soldering chassis; examines the fault-finding methods used in order to get a simple chassis successfully up and running; explains the choices involved in providing springing and beam compensation; provides simple solutions for achieving a good paint finish. Brimming with useful hints and advice, this new book tells you everything you need to know about how to build an 00 gauge Tilbury Tank locomotive, or any similar tank and is beautifully illustrated with 286 colour photographs and diagrams including sketches and specially commissioned artwork.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399095331
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives, 1923–1959 written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Western Castles were one of the most successful locomotive designs of the twentieth century in terms of both performance and efficiency. Designed by Charles Collett in 1923, based on the 1907 Churchward ‘Star’ class, 155 were constructed almost continuously, apart from the war years, between 1923 and 1950, in addition to fifteen rebuilt ‘Stars’ and one rebuilt from the Great Bear pacific. Many were modernised with increased superheat and double-chimneys in the late 1950s and the class continued to be the mainstay of all Western Region express passenger services to the West Country, South Wales, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and the West Midlands until replaced by the WR diesel hydraulic fleet in the early 1960s. This book covers their design in a chapter written by Bob Meanley, who masterminded the restoration at Tyseley Works of the Castles Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Clun Castle, and their history, operation and performance from the high speed of the 1930s through to their rejuvenation in the 1950s, leaving experience of their last years and preservation to another volume. David Maidment had close experience of the class when working at Old Oak Common between 1957 and 1962 and includes his personal experiences there and on the road from his first encounter with one as a six-year old boy. The book includes 350 photographs, some 40 in color, and 23 detailed Swindon technical drawings.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399095374
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives - The Final Years 1960- 1965 written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s second volume about the Great Western’s classic express locomotives covers their final six years in British Railways service. In 1960 the Castles, many now modernized with double chimneys and 4-row superheaters, were still in charge of most of the Western Region’s expresses, but by the summer of 1963 their regular express work was limited to the London – Worcester route. Their declining numbers in the last couple of years covered special summer and relief trains, parcels and freight work, deputizing for failed or unavailable diesels and a flurry of excursions and railtours where their prowess could still be demonstrated. The author worked and lived alongside them in these years and the book includes much of his own personal experience on the footplate, on their trains and on shed. The book recaps briefly their first 25 years and covers their history, operation and performance in their final years and is copiously illustrated including over 100 color photographs.
Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387408615
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Fashion in Steel: Streamlined Steam Locomotives in North America written by Jan Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book collects and describes every known North American streamlined - or semi-streamlined - steam locomotive with photographs of every class and every significant design variation and it packages those descriptions with information about the locomotives' origins, service lives and ultimate destinies."--Book
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Railway and Locomotive Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice, 1950-52 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Hay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471364009
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Railroad Engineering written by William W. Hay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of the classic text on railroad engineering, considered the ``bible'' of the field for three decades. Presents railroad engineering principles quantitatively but without excessive resort to mathematics, and applies these principles to day-by-day design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Relates practice to principles in an orderly, sequential pattern (subgrade, ballast, ties, rails). Applicable to both conventional railroads and rapid transit systems.
Author : Bud Shapard
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184302
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Chief Loco written by Bud Shapard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Tracing the events of Loco’s long tenure as a leader of the Warm Springs Chiricahua band, Shapard tells how Loco steered his followers along a treacherous path of unforeseeable circumstances and tragic developments in the mid-to-late 1800s. While recognizing the near-impossibility of Apache-American coexistence, Loco persevered in his quest for peace against frustrating odds and often treacherous U.S. government policy. Even as Geronimo, Naiche, and others continued their raiding and sought to undermine Loco’s efforts, this visionary chief, motivated by his love for children, maintained his commitment to keep Apache families safe from wartime dangers. Based on extensive research, including interviews with Loco’s grandsons and other descendants, Shapard’s biography is an important counterview for historians and buffs interested in Apache history and a moving account of a leader ahead of his time.
Author : Stuart Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472820495
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Loco Spotter’s Guide written by Stuart Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1800s locomotives have steamed, chugged and sparked their way into the nation's affections. These powerful engines were the drivers of the Industrial Revolution, and to the present day carry passengers and freight to every corner of Britain. But do you know your Locomotion from your Rocket, or your Gresley Class A4 from your Princess Coronation Class? How heavy is the Flying Scotsman? And who designed the Britannia Class? The Loco Spotter's Guide answers all of these questions, with first-class illustrations portraying more than 60 of the most important steam, diesel and electric designs, including all-important specifications and technical details to aid any would-be loco spotter.
Author : A. Rupert Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350017434
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book History of Technology written by A. Rupert Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
Author : Peter Chatham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526700182
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Early Railways written by Peter Chatham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, references, and resources for modeling the earliest decades of British rail travel. This is a guide to the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880. Over these few decades the railways evolved from something that at the start was markedly different, into a scene that any present-day railwayman would recognize. It is a time with much to commend it from a modeler’s point of view. The trains were much shorter and therefore easier to fit into the limited space most of us have available as, correspondingly, were the station layouts, especially at the beginning of the period. Covering infrastructure, locomotives, carriages, and wagons, this is an invaluable resource for those who want to explore the modeling possibilities of nineteenth-century railways.
