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Georgian Locomotive by H Stafford Bryant Jr Dust Jacket Some elegant steam l
The Georgian Locomotive by H Stafford Bryant Jr
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Some elegant steam locomotive power in the South and Southwest 1918-1945, an episode in American taste.
Copyright 1962
89 pages
Contents: List of Illustrationsviii
Forewordx
Prefacexii
Chapter 1 EAGLE OVER THE HEADLIGHT: The Great Days of the Southern in Steam1
Chapter 2 THE GEORGIAN LOCOMOTIVE: Steam on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Co. 13
Chapter 3 THE F-19 AND SOME OF HER CYCLOPEAN C.&O. SISTERS25
Chapter 4 STEAM ON THE COAST LINE AND THE SEABOARD36
Chapter 5 MOTIVE POWER ELEGANCE IN GEORGIA,
IN ALABAMA, IN TENNESSEE, IN KENTUCKY 13
Chapter 6 STEAM'S DIRECTOIRE PERIOD: Locomotives
of the Frisco Lines61
Chapter 7 THE DASH OF THE MISSOURI-KANSAS-TEXAS LINE71
Bibliography 79
A note about Locomotive Wheel Arrangements and Symbols and
the Locomotive Builders 87
List of Illustrations:
The Fabric of Steamfrontispiece
The Classic U.S.R.A. Conventionspage xviii
The Shrouded Steam Locomotivexix
Pacificus Americanusxxii
Pacificus Brittanicusxxii
The Prototypical Ps-42
The C.N.O.&T.P. StyleS
Thomas Wolfe Knew Her6
When Southern "Beefed up" its Smaller Power6
Switcher in the Passenger Style7
Husky Eastern Lines Mike8
A Regional Variation on the Southern8
The Queen Bee and the Palm11
The Georgian Locomotive14
The Southern "Circus Wagon" Style16
Midwestern Austerity and Good Looks16
The Georgian Revival in Richmond Locomotive Livery and Houses 17
Gray Day at ACCA19
Walkin' the Dog20
Railway Abstract Art22
Two Versions of the F-19 Pacific Type: C.&O. Baroque Masterpiece 24
The George at Speed26
Wearing George's Cameo28
Twenties Baroque30
Thirties Classical30
Housecleaning Day for "Patrick Henry"30
The Hudson Type Bien Fait33
South from Richmond I36
South from Richmond II37
How they "upgraded" the Seaboard M-2's38
Big Power on the Coast Line40
Switching Power in the Southeast42
The Wiry Seaboard Q-343
The Stocky Coast Line Q-143
The Anatomy of Steam44
The Mighty M-152
The U.S.R.A. Style on the L.&N.54
Yellow Jacket55
Yellow Jacket in Microcosm55
The Southern-Like Locomotives of the Mobile and Ohio57
Power for the Crescent58
English Livery and Antecedent60
The French Influence60
The 1500-Series64
Black and Gold66
Engine and Bed68
The Modern Steam Locomotive on the Frisco69
Edwardian Modes of Engine Livery in Great Britain and America72
Katy's Best74
Smaller Steam on M-K-T76
Pacific Types on the U.S.R.A. Pattern77
This book attempts to chronicle informally the special series of steamer which by its atmosphere and patina, seems so justly "The Georgian Locomotive." It illustrates some of the most characteristic specimens - from Northern Virginia to West Texas. It will attempt to put the locomotive in the larger context of the taste of its time. And it tells, if incidentally, of a happy time when steam was still God in American Roads and railroading seemed a secure and impregnable business.
The locomotives of the nineteen twenties and thirties in the Southern and Southeastern states were imposing and good to look at. They gave the railroads they belonged to color. an air of panache and a rather formidable sense of high quality. They brought new grace to the old cities of the Southern region, and excitement and a glimpse of the outside world to many an isolated hamlet. They lived until streamlining and the taste for "thirties modern" began to modify some of them. And until the diesel locomotive brought them to an end.
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