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Publisher : Old House Books
ISBN 13 : 9781908402080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Flying Scotsman written by and published by Old House Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains & Railways.
Author : Robin Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911276906
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Legendary Locomotives written by Robin Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226726347
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Most Powerful Idea in the World written by William Rosen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.
Author : Gordon Edgar
Publisher : Artist's and Photographers' Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904332800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (328 download)
Download or read book China written by Gordon Edgar and published by Artist's and Photographers' Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China was the last country in the world to build steam locomotives. The final main line engines emerged from Datong workshops in December 1988 and production of steam locomotives for industrial use continued until 1999. The final few steam locomotives were withdrawn from service in 2003, making China the last country to use steam on its main lines. Total eradication of China's steam programme is set to coincide with the Olympic games in 2008. When this happens, it will be the end of the last mecca for fans of real steam. This is a photo essay detailing the end of this era.
Author : James J. Reisdorff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942035735
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Big Legacy of the Union Pacific Big Boy written by James J. Reisdorff and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boys" are often credited as having been the largest steam locomotives in the world. Although these 25 steam giants last operated in 1959, their contribution to transportation history has not been forgotten. There are now eight Big Boys preserved at various museums and parks across the United States. This book, with text and more than 70 illustrations, describes the post-steam era story of Big Boy. It looks at not only what has become of the eight surviving locomotives, but also how human interest in these huge machines manifests itself in both the railroad hobby and popular culture. It also examines the question that has often been asked by railroad buffs everywhere: Will a Big Boy ever return to the rails?
Author : William L. Withuhn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253039355
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book American Steam Locomotives written by William L. Withuhn and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eugene L Huddleston
Publisher : Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780939487752
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Chesapeake & Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives written by Eugene L Huddleston and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake & Ohio was in the forefront with its 'Super Power,' and this new book systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in 1930 of the C&O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The fascinating story of C&O Super Power involves not only the road's own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating examination of C&O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&O's own locomotive diagrams and an ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with surprise and delight.
Author : Clara L. Matéaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book George & Robert Stephenson written by Clara L. Matéaux and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Roden
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781316139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Flying Scotsman written by Andrew Roden and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible biography of the most famous steam locomotive in the world. Think of the Golden Age of Steam and one train leaps to mind above all others: the Flying Scotsman, Nigel Gresley’s elegant masterpiece of a locomotive. She broke the world speed record in 1934 and has enthralled millions with her beauty and power. Uniquely, her post-war career has been even more varied and exciting than her early triumphs. Now Andrew Roden tells the Scotsman’s remarkable story, from her construction and the glory days between the wars through the decline of steam and her rollercoaster fortunes in the subsequent years: nearly abandoned on a tour of the United States after the money ran out, crossing the Australian interior, then put up for sale yet again when the company that owned her went bankrupt in 2003. A massive public campaign saved her for the nation and the Flying Scotsman’s restoration began in 2005 at the National Railway Museum. With the aid of numerous interviews with those involved with the Scotsman over the years, Roden brings her story memorably to life. Above all, he asks: why do grown men risk their life savings to own her? Why do thousands of people still line the trackside when she’s due to race past? And just what is the eternal appeal of the Flying Scotsman?
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780760307571
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Super Steam Locomotives written by Brian Solomon and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern, Yellowstone, Challenger, Big Boy, and Class J were part of a new breed of super steam locomotives in the late 1920s. This colorful history uses archival imagery of pioneering engines, along with modern color photography of examples still used today by museums and tourist railways. 100 photos, 80 in color.
Author : Don Hale
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992913
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Mallard written by Don Hale and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over eighty years ago on the East Coast main line, the streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph – a world record for steam locomotives that still stands. Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in York. Here, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was broken: from the nineteenth-century London–Scotland speed race and, surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design back to the Bugatti car and the influence of Germany's nascent Third Reich, which propelled the train into an instrument of national prestige. He also celebrates Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderful tribute to one of British technology's finest hours.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Dearborn Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760305430
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives written by Brian Solomon and published by Dearborn Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Wales to the modern steam-powered tourist trains of Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Colorado. Features coal-consuming behemoths and the men and women who keep them chugging along tracks that measure just two to three feet in width.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760345864
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Twilight of Steam written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA beautiful retrospective of American steam locomotives in their final years, featuring photography and recollections of the men who documented the end of the steam age. /div
Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Milepost Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781900193702
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Lost Leviathans written by Colin Garratt and published by Milepost Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the finest possible visual tribute to the steam locomotive ever produced. With 224 pages and more than 300 colour photographs, it documents machines of every conceivable shape, size and colour, often framed by some of the most memorable landscapes in the world.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760303368
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)
Download or read book American Steam Locomotive written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful collection of yesterdays iron workhorses captured in a variety of nostalgic photographs. Solomon's thoroughly-researched text details the origins, development and growth of the steam locomotive from its earliest days right up to its final futile battles to compete with the diesel. Witness the intimate workings of old steam engines that used 20,000 gallons of water per hour! And look inside fireboxes large enough to host a dinner for 12! See these iron behemoths inside and out, in photographs of them on the tracks, as well as in shots of them being rebuilt. An action-packed profile of the mighty steam trains that once ruled the tracks.
Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754823636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Complete Visual History of Steam and Rail written by Colin Garratt and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two perfect books for train enthusiasts, with a historical reference book spanning nearly two centuries of locomotive development, and an enthralling illustrated guide to the world's greatest railway journeys of all timme
Author : Colin Garrett
Publisher : Southwater
ISBN 13 : 9781780193960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Steam and Rail written by Colin Garrett and published by Southwater. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1500 photographs of locomotives from around the world. A definitive history of locomotive technology from the great steam engines of the 1830s to the electronic speed trains of the present day. Detailed specification boxes given for over 100 key locomotive designs.
