{"product_id":"historic-locomotives-and-moving-accidents-by-steam-and-rail-by-alfred-bennett-hc","title":"Historic Locomotives and Moving Accidents by steam and rail by Alfred Bennett HC","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:24855 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRailroadTreasures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eoffers the following item:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\";padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHistoric Locomotives and Moving Accidents by steam and rail by Alfred Bennett HC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHistoric Locomotives and Moving Accidents by steam and rail by Alfred Bennett Hard Cover 1906 with 10 colored plates reproduced from original water color drawings by Twining.  Approx 25 pages.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHAVE never been able to agree with Ruskin that there is no poetry in railways and steamers. On the contrary, when one reflects on the physical limitations of human-kind, those means which men have invented for the purpose of transporting themselves and their belongings from place to place appear as protuberances from the of true poetic radiance. The fabled aerial horse and magic mantle of the Arabian Nights make poetry, everybody agrees, and so may common plane of experience sufficiently elevated to catch a share Mother Shipton's prophecies, hut the realisations in actual life are y admitted as commonplace. If a writer were to recite in rippling rhyme or stately k verse a vision of Satan pursuing and catching angels and cherubs, and plucking their wings-just as naughty boys serve flies-afterwards dropping them shrieking a more or less Bottomless Pit, the devotees of Milton and Dante would listen with kening pulse ; but no amount of blank or any other verse would float a poem about achievements of a train or a steamer, for the chief food of poetry is the unknown, the -.dace, the obscure, and the unseen ; it shrinks from the clank of the printing press and says with the spread of education. If railways, steamers, and telegraphs were abolished,  came to live in the memory of future generations only as traditions, then the case would truly altered, and Stephenson, Symington, and Wheatstone would rank with Ajax,  and the Trojans. It is certainly wonderful, if not poetical, that a human being, possessed of only one life on earth, and that so precious that, whatever beliefs and actions relating to a Hereafter may be cherished, no sane person but does his best to save and prolong it, should confide himself and his solitary life, time after time, just Part of a day's work, to an express train. One life only, and seventy-five or perhaps eighty miles an hour down Shap or Beattock, with only a bolt, a nut, a rod, a spring, :slier plate, between it and-? A signalman's forgetfulness, a lunatic's prank, farewell to life, health, honours, wealth, love, ambition, family ties-everything. a cat with eight lives in reserve it might be excusable ; for humans-! And there is no poetry in railways ! \" Laissons les chemins de fer a leur triste sort,\" once said a poetical French friend, who wrote charming verses about sparrows, coffee, s0 en. But I am of opinion that the sad fate belongs to him who sees poetry in triffles and none in man as an heroic conqueror of natural disabilities. To those who agree with me this book will need no apology. The facts and incidents of which it treats remote to have afforded Father Time opportunity to invest them with a faint halo of romance. It is but a modest attempt to give the present generation an idea of railways and railway perils as their fathers and grandfathers knew them, and to illustrate different stages of the struggle to evolve a successful locomotive engine and to obtain safety in the management of railway traffic. Railways were much more varied in the 'forties, 'fifties, and 'sixties than they are to-day. The best type of engine was then being zealously sought by many engineers, and different roads were naturally followed in search of that mechanical Golden Fleece. This resulted in a large variety of locomotive types, carriages, signals, etc., which for the observant traveller greatly increased the attractiveness and interest of railways. Many of the engines of those days were very good ones, but, of course, comparatively small, as were the loads they had to deal with. So good were they that it is at least doubtful whether the most modern locomotive weighing seventy tons could make a better display as regards weight-pulling and speed than two thirty-ton engines of 18,60. The early machines were also more ornamental than those we know. One of the objections urged against the early railways was the ugliness of the engines-fully justified, we may admit, by the uncouth productions of Medley, Blenkinsop, and Stephenson-and promoters strove to combat this notion by designing handsome locomotives with graceful outlines, plenty of bright brass and copper fittings, and attractive paint. Now, when railways have become an indispensable factor in the life of the people, this need for attractiveness has passed, and we have machines much more uniform in appearance and often the reverse of handsome. The railway locomotive, in fact, has attained the phase of the dowdy married woman who, having won her man, opines that there is no longer any occasion to keep  smart. In all essentials the railway engine of sixty and seventy years ago was the same as now. We have injectors instead of pumps for feeding the boilers ; efficient continuous brakes instead of the old hand-brake ; we burn coal instead of coke ; but with these exceptions the changes have almost wholly consisted in strengthening, in enlarging, and modifying the parts which existed in the time of George Stephenson. 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