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Men Steam and the Driven Wheel by Edward Yeomans with dust jacket
Men, Steam and the Driven Wheel by Edward Yeomans Ex Library Book
For all who work or play at Railroading
Hard Cover
173 pages
Copyright 1939
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 9
I. SOMETHING OF THE HISTORY 20
II. PENCILS AND PAPER56
Frames; Cylinders; Boilers; Driving Wheels; Driving and Connecting Rods; Journal Boxes; Springs and Trailer Trucks.
III. ACCESSORIES99
Stokers; Superheaters; Headlights; The Booster; Power Reverse; Fire Doors; The Walschaert Gear; Automatic Train Control.
IV. ASSEMBLING115
V. ROUND HOUSE AND TERMINAL119
VI. RIDING ON LOCOMOTIVES 129
VII. ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN 140
Boiler Explosions
VIII. LOCOMOTIVES OF TODAY 168
IX. CONCLUSION172
INTRODUCTION
In this book, for the first time, the Steam Locomotive takes the center of the stage as a dramatic personality, one "so enormously alive, so gigantic in its proportions and strength, so charged with hissing, fiery energy, and yet so quiet and orderly, so instantly responsive and competent . .
Sharing the footlights are the men who "design and construct, attend and operate, this exacting monster."
This book is written for all who work or play at railroading; for those who, like the author, have since childhood gazed with ever-increasing enthusiasm at steam locomotives, heard their whistles with rapture, and craved any possible contact with an engineer, or admission to his cab.
MEN, STEAM AND THE DRIVEN WHEEL is a beautifully written book, touched with deep philosophy. The author, Edward Yeomans, formerly of Yeomans Bros. Co., Chicago, Manufacturers of Machinery, and now of the Ojai Valley School, Ojai, California, is also a writer of articles on educational subjects for The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
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