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Heisler Locomotive 1891 - 1941 by Benjamin Kline Jr w/ Dust Jacket & addenda Err
The Heisler Locomotive 1891-1941 published by Benjamin F G Kline Jr INCLUDES Addenda Errata March 1983
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
199 pages
Copyright 1982
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Charles L. Heisler, Inventor of the Heisler Geared Locomotive 9
2 Stearns Manufacturing Company, Builder of Heisler Locomotives 1894 to 1905 19
3 The Heisler Locomotive Works 25
4 The Whitney Engineering Company 35
5 The Heisler Geared Locomotive Origin, Development, Refinement 39
6 The Heisler Geared Locomotive Purpose, Distribution, Performance 61
7 The Erection of A Heisler Geared Locomotive 69
8 Heisler's Last Years - 1930 - 1941 79
Heisler Scale Drawings 93
The Heisler Builders List 107
The Heisler Owners Index 179
Acknowledgments 194
Bibliography 196
Index 197
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
203 Photographs, Builders - Owners Lists, Drawings - Charts, 6 Scale Drawings, Index
THE HEISLER LOCOMOTIVE, 1891-1941, is the long awaited and definitive history of this interesting and capable machine. It is the result of years of work and continuous research by a dedicated group of men whose locations encompass continental North America and as far distant as New Zealand.
The Heisler Locomotive Works was the smallest of the three major manufacturers of geared locomotives, and production of the Heisler locomotive began after the other two, the Lima Shay and the Climax, were well established in the market for geared locomotives. However, at the end Heisler outlasted Climax, and sold more geared locomotives than Lima during the final 10 years of production.
The Heisler story begins at Dunkirk, New York, when a young Cornell University Engineering graduate, Charles L. Heisler, was asked by his employer to design a locomotive to suit a customer's specific needs. The story then moves to Erie, Pennsylvania, and remained there until manufacture ceased in 1941, a span of fifty years. During this time, in addition to the over 600 geared locomotives, over thirty fireless, and one early diesel electric locomotive were built.
This book not only contains the Heisler corporate history, but also a detailed builder's list with the known authenticated owners, an owner's index and over 200 photographs chosen to represent the Heisler locomotive as built, and in service. There are reproductions of the original patent drawings, the known specification tables, and much more included that should satisfy both the historian, and the casual reader.
The author, and the publisher, are known for their contributions to logging railroad and locomotive history. Both were participants in the award winning series "The Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania".
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