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American Steam Locomotives By Paul North w/ dust jacket
American Steam Locomotives by Paul North
American Steam Locomotives
Paul North
Hard cover with dust jacket
192 pages
Copyright 1988
Contents
Preface7
1. The Story of America's Steam Railroads9
2. The Last of the American
Steam Locomotives62
3. American Presidents
and American Railroads76
4. Some Interesting Technical
Information, Facts and Trivia...82
5. Riding the Rails:
Train Cars and Interiors112
6. Railroads on Parade at the 1939
New York World's Fair128
7. Major Railroads of the Steam Era134
Appendices:
I. Origins of the Steam Locomotive154
II. Time Capsule, 1910176
III. Fastest Steam Trains190
IV. Worst American Train Wrecks191
Acknowledgements192
Join us for an exciting trip through the age of steam locomotion! American Steam Locomotives retells the whole, fascinating story from the very first experiments with steam in ancient Egypt to the streamlined monster steam locomotives of this century. Glimpse the Granite Railway--America's first-then the running of the legendary "Stourbridge Lion." The famous race of the "Tom Thumb" soon follows, the Golden Spike joins the continent at Promontory Point--and on it goes! Individual chapters cover the last, and greatest, streamline locomotives, little known tales of American Presidents and the railroads, locomotives at the 1939 World's Fair, brief histories of major lines--and much, much more. This is a truly comprehensive look at American locomotives of the steam era. All the romance, excitement and wonder is recreated in authoritative text and hundreds of wonderful illustrations, many of them rare, never-before-published originals that will fascinate even dyed-in-the-wool steam locomotive buffs.
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