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Book Synopsis 1921 Shay Geared Locomotive Engine and Parts Catalog by : Shay Locomotive Works
Download or read book 1921 Shay Geared Locomotive Engine and Parts Catalog written by Shay Locomotive Works and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books consists of a replica of two vintage catalogs from the Lima Locomotive Works. The first shows Lima's line of Shay locomotives circa 1921. The second is a spare parts catalog with maintenance information. Featuring descriptive text and photos, this book is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the age of steam. In 1877, Ephraim Shay came up with a radical design for a logging locomotive that featured a side- mounted set of cylinders. These drove drive shafts, which powered the wheels of both the locomotive and tender. This ¿geared locomotive¿ offered a distinct advantage, in that the entire weight of the engine developed tractive effort. The Lima Locomotive Works of Lima, Ohio, produced the first Shay in 1880. Less than a decade later, the company was producing five different types of Shays, and shipping them throughout the world. The last Shay was built in 1945. Lima produced its last steam engine in 1949, and merged with Baldwin in 1951.
Book Synopsis The Shay Locomotive by : Michael Koch
Download or read book The Shay Locomotive written by Michael Koch and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Western Maryland Railway Shay No. 6 by : Gerald M. Futej
Download or read book Western Maryland Railway Shay No. 6 written by Gerald M. Futej and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Trees Grew Tall by : John B. Miller
Download or read book The Trees Grew Tall written by John B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book consolidating the oral history of the beginnings of the town of Bovill, Idaho and the surrounding area.
Book Synopsis The Willamette Locomotive by : Steve Hauff
Download or read book The Willamette Locomotive written by Steve Hauff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geared locomotive is important in the history of logging. It mechanized the transport of logs from forest to mill. The Willamette is but a footnote with only 33 ever built. Its impact belies the small number; it brought innovations later copied by the big players: Shay and Heisler. A useful and worthy contribution to the history of rail and logging. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author :Ralph Daniel Ranger Publisher :San Marino, Calif. : Golden West Books, c1964, 1974 printing. ISBN 13 : Total Pages :124 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Pacific Coast Shay by : Ralph Daniel Ranger
Download or read book Pacific Coast Shay written by Ralph Daniel Ranger and published by San Marino, Calif. : Golden West Books, c1964, 1974 printing.. This book was released on 1964 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The geared locomotive was born of sudden need back in the 1870's and the Shay was the first and most numerous of this bizarre breed. Its sound was enough to send the unitiated scurrying into the brush, for it gave the impression of a charging monster, flying past at a mile-a-minute speed. In actuality, though, the din of steam and metal was deceptive and bore little relation to its leisurely pace. The Shay locomotive attained its peak of popularity during the 1920s and no fewer than 500 of these machines were in use on the West Coast. The famous Pacific Coast type was first introduced in 1927 as a last-ditch effort to induce the western lumber industry to continue to log vast stands by Shay locomotives." --Fron inside of book jacket
Book Synopsis Building Small Steam Locomotives by : Peter Jones
Download or read book Building Small Steam Locomotives written by Peter Jones and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have an ambition to build a small live steam locomotive, but are daunted by the skills required, then this book is for you. Written in his clear and encouraging style, Peter Jones demystifies the whole process for those with little or no previous experience. Contents include: An explanation of terms; Basic metalworking processes; Step-by-step project guides; Machining; Boilermaking; Painting; and Finishing. Fully illustrated throughout with color photographs and drawings, and including appendices of suppliers and societies, this is an invaluable work for the railway modeler.
Book Synopsis The Backyard Railroader by : Jeff Frost
Download or read book The Backyard Railroader written by Jeff Frost and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steam locomotives dominated the railways from the 1820s through the 1960s. Today almost all of them have been replaced with electric and diesel engines, yet the fascination surrounding steam-powered trains has not dwindled. A diverse community of enthusiasts--from mechanics to teachers to lawyers--have taken up the hobby of building and running steam locomotives in their own backyards. Drawing on the author's extensive experience and research, this guide covers the materials, tools, skills and technical information needed to get started or to improve an existing design.
Book Synopsis West Virginia Logging Railroads by : William Warden
Download or read book West Virginia Logging Railroads written by William Warden and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. This book explains--and illustrates with both color and black & white photographs--the operations of logging railroads in the state from about 1940-1960. It includes a fascinating look at the rapid and haphazard laying of track, the challenge of getting up the mountains, and the hazards of derailing locomotives. Warden's book addresses the romance of back woods railroading. With puffy white clouds in an azure blue sky, a Shay type narrow gauge geared locomotive on the Ely-Thomas Lumber Company's logging railroad hauls a train of logs toward the mill in June 1954. This scene is typical of the interesting West Virginia logging railroad operations that are portrayed in this book. In another Ely-Thomas Lumber Company scene, Shay No. 5 prepares to cross Manns Run, near the end of this narrow gauge logging line's life in October. William E. Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. He prepared this book to illustrate and explain the methods and operations of logging railroads in West Virginia in the last twenty years that they ran, ending about 1960. West Virginia was one of the nation's largest producers of lumber beginning in the late 19th Century and extending into the middle third of the 20th Century. It had hundreds of logging railroads carrying huge quantities of timber to mills for processing into finished lumber, which was then shipped all over the United States, again by rail. The lumber industry in West Virginia began its decline when the great stands of virgin forest began to be depleted, and by the 1950s, there were only a half-dozen or so operations left still using logging railroads. There remain many logging and lumber milling operations in the state, but today the logs are taken from the forest by motor truck to modern, highly automated mills. The romance of back woods railroading holds a particular allure and nostalgia today, even as it did when these last few lines were still operating. We are lucky that Bill Warden and others were there to photograph the last decades. The book treats in detail five of the last and largest companies to use logging railroads and illustrates each line in some detail. Also included are chapters about logging in West Virginia and the locomotives that were favorites of the loggers--the famous geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler types. Today tourists can experience some of the logging railroad flavor by riding the Cass Scenic Railroad over the old line of the Mower Lumber Company out of Cass, W.Va.
Book Synopsis West Virginia's Last Logging Railroad -the Meadow River Lumber Company by : Philip V Bagdon
Download or read book West Virginia's Last Logging Railroad -the Meadow River Lumber Company written by Philip V Bagdon and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete history of West Virginia's largest logging railroad which was also its last, operating 1912-1972. It operated Shay, Heisler, and Climax geared steam locomotives and in the last 15 years also had diesels. The book covers the locomotives in detail, the cars and the operations as well as background on the company and its owners, the Raine family. Photos show all aspects of the operation and the people involved. Meadow River was at one time the largest producer of hardwood lumber in the world. Some of its equipment has survived to operate on tourist lines.
Book Synopsis Steam Locomotive Design by : Eustace Alfred Phillipson
Download or read book Steam Locomotive Design written by Eustace Alfred Phillipson and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1936 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Crookedest Railroad in the World by : Theodore G. Wurm
Download or read book The Crookedest Railroad in the World written by Theodore G. Wurm and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a readable history of the railway's 30 years of existence -- its planning and construction, branch lines, methods of operation. Read about how it pioneered in novel equipment, watering wheels, heating feedwater in the stack, and being one of the first to use oil burning locomotives exclusively"-- book jacket.
Book Synopsis La Locomotive À Vapeur by : André Chapelon
Download or read book La Locomotive À Vapeur written by André Chapelon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the great French engineer André Chapelon, the man responsible for what were the world's most efficient and, on a pound for pound basis, most powerful steam locomotives ever built. Published in 1952, in this book Chapelon reviews in detail developments in the design and construction of all the steam locomotive's major parts, and compares the merits of simple and compound expansion. He then looks, again in detail, at the major standard gauge locomotive designs worldwide of the 20th Century, including his own. Translated from the French by George Carpenter, this edition includes various addenda updating Chapelon's work to the end of commercial steam, looks at Chapelon's unbuilt designs, and reviews the work of those who have continued to develop advanced steam locomotives. A book nobody interested in the history of the steam locomotive in the 20th century should be without. 659 A4 format pages, over 450 B & W photos, drawings, diagrams and charts, plus 41 colour illustrations.
Book Synopsis The MDC Shay Handbook by : Jeff Johnston
Download or read book The MDC Shay Handbook written by Jeff Johnston and published by Oso Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shay Patent and Direct Locomotive Catalog by : Shay Locomotive Works
Download or read book Shay Patent and Direct Locomotive Catalog written by Shay Locomotive Works and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877, Ephraim Shay designed a steam locomotive that featured a side-mounted set of cylinders. These in turn drove longitudinal shafts, which powered the wheels of both the locomotive and tender. This ¿geared locomotive¿ developed terrific tractive effort. The Lima Locomotive Works of Ohio, produced the first Shay locomotive in 1880. A little more than two decades later, when this catalog was produced, the company was producing three different classes of Shays. The last engine was built in 1945 and still operates at the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia. This reproduction catalog is a wonderful resource for the model railroader, train spotter, and rail enthusiast.
Book Synopsis The Art of the Locomotive by : Ken Boyd
Download or read book The Art of the Locomotive written by Ken Boyd and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of digitally enhanced photographs of trains from the early 1800s to the present day by author and photographer Ken Boyd"-Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Railway Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
