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Complete Steam Locomotive Companion 17 original drawings of locomotives Cox
The Complete Steam Locomotive Companion
17 original drawings of locomotives by Fletcher Cox
Soft Cover
Copyright 1987
28 pages
Contents
How the Steam Locomotive Works 4
The Age of Steam 6
Portfolio of Notable Steam Locomotives
The First One 7
Rocket to Big Boy 8
The American Locomotive Is Developed10
John Bull, Campbell's Eight Wheeler, Gowan & Marx
The American Locomotive Is Refined 12
General, 999, and Two Ten-Wheelers
The Age of Specialized Locomotives 14
Consolidation, Mikado, Atlantic, Pacific
Epitome and End16
Berkshire and Two Northerns
Active Main Line Steam Locomotives Today18
Time Lines
Important Events 20
Major Steps in the Development of Steam Locomotives and Trains 21
Locomotive Whistle Signals 22
Names of Popular Steam Locomotives,
Whyte Classification System23
Photographing Steam Locomotives 24
Help Keep Steam Locomotives Alive 25
Drive 'Er While She Holds the Rails, Preserving and
Enjoying History, Finding Active Steam Locomotives
Glossary 26
In Conclusion 27
Bibliography 28
The Age of Steam! A string of passenger cars rushing along behind a magnificent steam locomotive!
Oh, that steam engine! What a sight and sound! Drive rods churning. Smoke streaming back. Steam whipped from the whistle as she blows a warning for a grade crossing.
The "iron horse" was the most fascinating machine ever made-honest and open. You knew how it worked, because everything was out there to be seen. You could see and hear the air pumps and feel heat from the firebox and boiler. The generator whirred beneath its plume of steam. Stack, steam dome, sand box, bell, whistle-all were immediately understandable.
It seemed alive, the incarnation of some truly wondrous, mythological draft animal come to earth at last-panting, radiating heat, giving off its own smell of smoke and hot oil.
It was quite an age, the Age of Steam. American factories and railroad shops built perhaps as many as 133,000 steam locomotives. The era began in this country in 1830, when the West Point Foundry Association of New York City constructed the first locomotive built in the United States, the Best Friend of Charleston. The end came in 1953 in Roanoke, Virginia, when the Norfolk & Western produced an 0-8-0 switcher, the last reciprocating steam locomotive for a mainline railroad.
Fortunately, some steam locomotives still pull excursion trains. These have proven to be so popular that at least a dozen more engines are being restored for excursions by museums and groups of enthusiasts.
Many other steam locomotives are on display in museums and parks.
That's why the Steam Locomotive Companion exists. It is for everyone who is enchanted by the sights and sounds of these machines. It is for everyone who wants to put a particular locomotive into its own historical context. In short, this book is for all romantics who want to know more-but not too much more.
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