Trains and Technology: Cars

Trains and Technology: Cars
Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0874137306

Volume 2 of 'Trains and Technology' is devoted to railroad cars of nineteenth-century America. Since the variety of cars used during the nineteenth century was huge, the book is divided into three sections- passenger, freight, and non-revenue cars. The easily understood, jargon-free discussions and explanations throughout the book are accompanied by over 225 illustrations and accurate scale drawings of the various equipment.

Trains and Technology

Trains and Technology
Author: Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2001
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

The first of a four-volume set traces the maturation of the railroad through an exposition of railroad technology. This book details locomotive design and application through three stages: infancy (1830-1875), adolescence (1850-1875), and maturity (1875-1900). This history of the American railroad is accompanied by nearly 150 illustrations and accurate drawings of the equipment and appliances, many of which have not been published before outside of old technical journals.