{"product_id":"iron-horse-steam-trains-of-the-world-by-lorie-garratt-w-dust-jacket","title":"Iron Horse Steam Trains of the World By Lorie \u0026 Garratt  w\/ dust jacket","description":"\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:23004 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\u003ctbody\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;\"\u003eIron Horse Steam Trains of the World By Lorie \u0026amp; Garratt DJ 1987\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\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eIron Horse Steam Trains of the World By Peter Lorie \u0026amp; Colin Garratt \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003e  Inscription \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eHard Cover with Dust Jacket.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eCopyright 1987.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eTable of Contents:  The line divides, North America the US and Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Ocean islands, China, Russia, South America, more. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003e 255 pages.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eMany photos.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eContents\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eINTRODUCTION. 6\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eTHE LINE DIVIDES. 14\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eNORTH AMERICA.\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e. 22\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eThe States - Canada\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eUNITED KINGDOM. 47\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eNORTHERN IRELAND \u0026amp; EIRE .. 84\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eEUROPE. 86\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eGermany Scandinavia Austria Hungary •\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003ePoland Yugoslavia • Rumania France • Switzerland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003ePortugal Spain • Italy Greece\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eMIDDLE EAST. 143\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eTurkey Syria\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eAFRICA. 154\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eSudan Zimbabwe South Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eSOUTH ASIA.\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e. 174\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eIndia Pakistan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eOCEAN ISLANDS. 186\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003ePhilippines Indonesia Island China Australia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eNew Zealand\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eCHINA. 203\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eRUSSIA.\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"white-space:pre\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003e. 230\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eSOUTH AMERICA. 234\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eBrazil Argentina Uruguay - Paraguay Chile\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eEPITAPH. 253\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eAcknowledgements  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eInside dust jacket\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eIRON HORSE — Steam Trains of the World is a celebration of the coming, the growth and the modern existence of steam locomotion throughout the world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eA team of professional photographers and steam enthusiasts traveled for over five years around the world taking pictures exclusively for this book. More than three-quarters of the pictures have never been seen before. In addition, the British steam collector, photographer and archivist, Colin Garratt, provided previouslyunpublished pictures and also went specially to the north of China, close to the border with Russia, to bring back photographs that illustrate, further, the state of the art today.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eIRONHORSE is therefore a unique exploration of an era that is far from dying.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eSteam locomotion, when it first evolved in the early 1800s, did not simply occupy a period of history, it dominated the world as perhaps the single most significant development of the industrial era. Within the short space of thirty years in England, a railway network spread across the entire country like a spider's industrious web, bringing transportation to a country which had previously been a sleepy, localized, farming community.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eWith the innovation of men such as James Watt, Trevithick and George Stephenson, a few desultory puffs of steam grew into the magnificence of engines capable of rapid speed and huge hauling capacity, serving the mining industries and then the passenger routes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eIn the new lands of America, vast distances with difficult terrain and hazardous conditions had to be covered in order that the conquering. \"white man\" could make some impression on a land he could not begin to explore without the help of the Ironhorse.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eSteam traction was rapidly taken up throughout the rest of Europe as nations converged, changed and developed, during this time of change before the First World War. India derived its railway growth from the British Empire and still runs steam engines today. Africa blossomed from its natural resources of diamonds and gold through the giant efforts of men like Cecil Rhodes and track, was laid through all conditions — jungle, rapids, wild lions, regardless of opposition.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\"\u003eIRONHORSE brings the stories, the adventures and the political machinations of a time of unprecedented growth, but it also brings, as much the steam that lives today. Throughout West and East Europe, the British Isles, America, Canada, India, China, the Ocean Islands, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and South America, the very best is captured in pictures and words that form a classic example of a phenomenon that refuses to die.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAll pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. 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