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Author : Michael Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
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:
Author : Gerald M. Futej
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976804420
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
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:
Author : Shay Locomotive Works
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1935327054
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Ralph Daniel Ranger
Publisher : San Marino, Calif. : Golden West Books, c1964, 1974 printing.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
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
Author : Michael Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Shay Locomotive written by Michael Koch and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard A. Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932804430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Shay Locomotive written by Richard A. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "2,768 locomotives constructed over a period of 65 years, for customers around the world, in a a myriad of designs. That was, and is, the Shay. The authors have spent more than two decades researching the Shay locomotive, its design, its ownership, its strengths, and its weaknesses. The result is a pictorial and technical narrative about a locomotive type that changed the industry and, arguably, altered the development of a country. It is a story intertwined with the industrial development of a nation through two World Wars, the Great Depression, and several financial panics. It is a story of invention, innovation, and change, both in the locomotive and in the industries for which it labored. This is the story of the Shay."--Dust jacket.
Author : Steve Hauff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
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 : John B. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648263583
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Shay Locomotive Works
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1935327283
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
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.
Author : William Warden
Publisher : Quarrier Press
ISBN 13 : 9781942294481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
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.
