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Author : Ron Ziel
Publisher : Amereon Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780848808631
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mainline Steam Revival written by Ron Ziel and published by Amereon Limited. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Parker Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253342195
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive written by J. Parker Lamb and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mechanical engineering profession both grew directly out of the Industrial Revolution's need for sources of power beyond that of men and animals. Invented in England when coal mining was being developed, the practical steam engine eventually found numerous applications in transportation, especially in railroad technology. J. Parker Lamb traces the evolution of the steam engine from the early 1700s through the early 1800s, when the first locomotives were sent to the United States from England. Lamb then shifts the scene to the development of the American steam locomotive, first by numerous small builders, and later, by the early 20th century, by only three major enterprises and a handful of railroad company shops. Lamb reviews the steady progress of steam locomotive technology through its pinnacle during the 1930s, then discusses the reasons for its subsequent decline.
Author : Nils Huxtable
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780831714741
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Classic North American Steam written by Nils Huxtable and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious, large (10.5 x 14.75") reprint of the 1990 original edition of Gallery Books, a division of W.H. Smith. The present incarnation manifests better resolution & greater contrast in the many b & w photos. Impressive book at a tiny price (a promotional book). An era ended in 1960, when the major railroads in the United States and Canada dieselized.
Author : Peter J. C. Skelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mainline Steam Into the 1980s written by Peter J. C. Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387408615
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( 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 : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railfan & Railroad written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627932
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century written by Tom Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Karl Zimmermann
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590781654
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steam Locomotives written by Karl Zimmermann and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history and workings of steam locomotives.
Author : Jeffrey W. Schramm
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0982131372
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Out of Steam written by Jeffrey W. Schramm and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Author: Jeff Schramm is an associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology. --Book Jacket.
Author : Colin Garratt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473844126
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steam, Soot and Rust written by Colin Garratt and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of the steam locomotive in the land of its birth touched the hearts of millions, but when the government announced the Modernisation Plan for Britain's railways in 1955, under which steam was to be phased out in favour of diesel and electric traction, few people took it seriously. Steam locomotives were an integral part of our daily lives and had been for almost one and a half centuries. Furthermore, they were still being built in large numbers. It was popularly believed that they would see the century out and probably well beyond that. But the reality was that by 1968 Ð a mere thirteen years after the Modernisation Plan Ð steam traction had disappeared from Britain's main line railways. It was harrowing to witness the breaking up of engines, which were the icons of their day, capable of working long-distance inter-city expresses weighing 400 tons on schedules faster than a mile a minute. Top speeds of 100mph were not unknown. This book chronicles the last few years as scrap yards all over Britain went into overtime, cutting up thousands of locomotives and releasing a bounty of more than a million tons of scrap whilst the engines, which remained in service, were a shadow of their former selves; filthy, wheezing and clanking their way to an ignominious end. The pictures in this book are augmented by essays written by Colin Garratt at the time. Although steam disappeared from the main line network it survives in everÐdwindling numbers on industrial systems such as collieries, ironstone mines, power stations, shipyards, sugar factories, paper mills and docks. In such environments steam traction eked out a further decade and during this time many of the industrial locations closed rendering the locomotives redundant. The British steam locomotive was born amid the coalfields and was destined to die there one and three quarter centuries later.
