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Book Of Trains. The By Tre Tryckare Small hardcover W/ Dust jacket
Book of Trains, The by Tre Tryckare Classics of Transportation
The Book of Trains
Classics of Transportation
Tre Tryckare
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Small Book 5 x 5
128 pages
1968 Copyright
Here, in 52 beautiful, full-color pictures, is the history of railroading from its earliest beginnings to the streamlind giants of the present day. Produced in the meticulously accurate Tre Tryckare manner, this small classic combines nostalgia with the sure knowledge of an editor whom trains have been a lifelong pass; Born in Fiji, raised in New Zealand a a resident of Britain since 1945, J. B. Snell is presently an official of British Railways. He has traced the development rail transport in three books - this, fourth, is a unique collector's treasure.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Indexed by wheel arrangement STEAM LOCOMOTIVES 0-2-2
Stephenson's ROCKET29
4-2-0
Baltimore & Ohio LAFAYETTE 33 4-2-2
Midland Railway, Johnson52
0-4-0
Trevithick's engine25
Blenkinsop's engine27
0-4-2
Liverpool & Manchester LION31
Prussian State no. 157749
0-4-4
New York & Harlem, Forney45
2-4-0
Western of France BATILLY41
4-4-0
The American Type39
P.L.M. C class55
4-4-2
G.N.R. no. 99056
B & 0 A9 class no. 148559
0-6-0
Belgian 51 class no. 4447
L.M.S. 4F no. 4438485
U.S. Army (BR 30073)109
4-6-0
Prussian P8 no. 38.258063
Eastern of France no. 310365
G.W.R. CASTLE no. 407979
Adriatic Railway 670 class69
4-6-2
N.Z.R. Q class61
Bengal Nagpur no. 79288
Nord 3.11 class no. 3.111493
L.N.E.R. A4 class95
D.D.R. 01.5. class no. 01.504117
4-6-4
Barsi Light Railway no. 990
German 05 class97
N.Y.C. J3A class99
0-8-0
Baltimore & Ohio CAMELBACK 35 R.E.N.F.E. 2031 class no. 040.2116 43 2-8-0
Swedish E2 class67
2-8-2
S.N.C.F. 141R class107
2-8-4
Soviet JOSEPH STALIN class87
4-8-2
S.N.C.F. 241A class77
South African 23 class102
4-8-4
Union Pacific 800 class100
2-10-0
German 44 class80
British Railways 9F class115
2-10-2
R.E.N.F.E. 3100 class104
2-12-2
We tend to think of the steam engine as a relatively modern concept; actually an awareness of the power to be derived from steam dates back to classical times. Had the technology of the Greeks or Romans been as well developed as their science, and had they possessed an abundant source of fuel, the Industrial Revolution might have come about two thousand years earlier than it did. But as it happened, the first practical use of the power of steam was during the seventeenth century, when it was applied to the task of pumping water out of coalmines in Britain; a nice illustration of the way in which one step forward in industrial development springs out of, and depends on, an earlier one. For the coalmines were there first, to meet the need for fuel that Britain's denuded forests could no longer supply, and the voracious appetite of the first primitive engines for coal could hardly be satisfied anywhere far from a pithead.
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