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American Steam Locomotive By Brian Solomon Dust Jacket
American Steam Locomotive By Brian Solomon
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1998
160 Pages
CONTENTS.
Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 7
Chapter 1
STEAM PIONEERS 8
Chapter 2
THE FORMATIVE YEARS 24
Chapter 3
THE LOCOMOTIVE GROWS 39
Chapter 4
ARTICULATED LOCOMOTIVES 59
Chapter 5
SUPERPOWER AND STREAMLINERS 80
Chapter 6
SPECIAL SERVICE ENGINES 100
Chapter 7
DIESEL. DEBUT 112
Chapter 8
STEAM TECHNOLOGY IN THE
DIESEL AGE 126
Chapter 9
AMERICAN STEAM TODAY 143
BIBLIOGRAPHY 159
Index 160
Bellowing clouds of steam and smoke, its haunting whistle echoing through valleys and sounding across plains, the steam locomotive was one of the most fascinating machines ever to cross the landscape. The American Steam Locomotive thoroughly 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. More than 200 exceptional, insightful photographs-many previously unpublished-will take you trackside to a time when steam locomotives ruled America's rails.
The American Steam Locomotive chronicles history's greatest locomotives, including Southern Pacific's cab-forward articulateds that conquered California's formidable Donner Pass crossing; Boston & Albany's Berkshires-the first Lima Superpower; Pennsylvania's ill-fated Duplexes, built to compete with new diesels and operated at sustained speeds faster than 100 miles per hour; and Northern Pacific's gargantuan
Yellowston, locomotives so large that a banquet for 12 was once held in one of their fireboxes.
Not forgotten arc the many specialized engines that toiled away in relative obscurity: geared logging locomotives that hauled timber on tracks precariously traversing logging roads and rivers; steam dummies built to work in city streets; and narrow gauge locomotives that crossed the Rocky Mountains at more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
With more than 150 color and 50 black and white images, this colorful look at one of the most dramatic and beloved aspects of lost America will take you back to the time when steam locomotives ruled the earth.
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