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Locomotives On Parade By Edward Hungerford Hard Cover damaged binding edge
Locomotives On Parade By Edward Hungerford
Hard Cover Damaged binding edge, part missing, loose from the book. Price reflects condition Owners name plate on inside cover
Copyright 1940
236 Pages Indexed
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .3
1. BEGINNINGS ..13
England and her early railways | Trevithick and Stephenson and their locomotives Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester in 1829 | The scene shifts to America and one finds steam transport here first used upon the rivers | Fitch and Robert Fulton and John Stevens | and Stevens' experimental locomotive
2. THE STOURBRIDGE LION ARRIVES..28
Horatio Allen brings a new gadget to the Delaware and Hudson Canal (1829) THE STOURBRIDGE LION fails to give a good account of itself at Honesdale | They do better with the BEST FRIEND and the BROTHER JONATHAN-both American built-down in South Carolina
3. BALTIMORE'S OWN RAILROAD .39
Baltimore starts to build a Rail Road to the West and is baffled by the question of its Motive Power | Horses and their limitations | Alderman Peter Cooper and his TOM THUMB | The Baltimore and Ohio also has locomotive trials | JOHN BULL
4. THE RAILROAD IDEA SPREADS ..55
Pennsylvania also builds a Rail Road | and some Canals | OLD IRONSIDES | And Matthias W. Baldwin | Eastwick and Harrison and the Norrises of Philadelphia The American locomotive goes overseas
5. IN THE NORTH OLD IRON HORSE TRIUMPHS .68
The DE WITT CLINTON makes his debut in York State | Yankee ingenuity and Yankee mechanical ability do their best for the Iron Horse | While Paterson, New Jersey, offers no apologies for its locomotive progress | Engine building at Dunkirk and Schenectady
6. NEW ENGLAND BUILDS GOOD ENGINES ..82
The rival builders of Taunton | W. W. Fairbanks, William Mason and Wilson Eddy and his famous "clocks" | Russia builds American engines for its first great railroad In the United States the American Type is created and comes into instant favor
7. IRON HORSE BECOMES A THING OF BEAUTY ... 101
Elihu Burritt expresses his admiration of the American locomotive | Gay and gaudy it is | Then they cease naming the engines and the colors more sober go The coal burner supplants the wood burner | Early locomotives in the Middle West
8. THE HIGH GOD OF EFFICIENCY APPEARS ..119
Matthias Baldwin builds locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad and James Milholland for the Reading, while Ross Winans and Thatcher Perkins try their hands for Baltimore and Ohio | The safety-valve, the superheater and the air-brake make their appearance
9. THE BREED OF THE IRON HORSE IMPROVES............ 136
Samuel Vauclain and his compounds | The Wootten type | The New York Central also builds good locomotives and eventually evolves the Hudson type engine Experiments in streamlining
10. THE AMERICAN TYPE .157
The 4-4 0, the most popular of all American locomotives | The Delaware and Hudson makes some interesting experiments | The Pennsylvania pins its faith upon its mighty K-4's | Mallet giants | Modern motive power on the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western and the Baltimore and Ohio
11. THE IRON HORSE IN THE WEST ..182
Locomotive development west of Chicago | Early days on the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific | The Santa Fe type | Motive power on the Burlington | The world's greatest locomotive finally reaches the New York World's Fair
12. THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE MEETS REAL COMPETITION.207
What electricity as motive power did for the American railroad | Suburban developments and electric locomotives for through traffic | The Diesel arrives And begins to make a mighty place for itself in the railroad world
INDEX..231
II This is, in no sense whatsoever, a technical book upon the development of the railroad locomotive in the United States Other and far abler men have essayed that task-men like Zerah Col burn and Angus Sinclair and M. N. Forney and J. Snowden Bell-and have made pretty thorough jobs of it if This seeks only to be a layman's telling in the simplest possible language of the creation of one of the mightiest of all the great mechanical mobile units of the land-the famed Iron Horse, whose triumphs have been the triumphs of the American railroad itself ; that subjugated creature of might who has brought the distant limits of a mighty nation, continent-wide, more and more closely together; whose mighty efforts in an entire fleet have promoted its commerce, eased its social intercourse and helped in its military defense The author is not skilled in the ways of locomotives-in the fine details of their construction and their operation 1' He merely feels for them a great admiration and seeks herein, as simply as possible, to transmit that admiration to the printed page If He begins his study, as the locomotive itself began, with the use of one of the most powerful mechanical agents ever known to man-steam.
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