The History Of North American Steam
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Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Complete with Travelers Tales boxes, specially commissioned maps & a listing of heritage team locomotives still in action today, this exciting chronicle tells the complete story of how the Iron Horse changed the course of history.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Waukesha, WI : Kalmbach Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780890242063 |
History and development of steam power since 1900, including railroad-by-railroad histories and rosters.
Author | : Christopher Chant |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780785829331 |
This illustrated history of steam trains makes a great gift item for train enthusiasts and railroad historians. It covers steam locomotives from its origins, its expansion through to its eventual obsoletion. It also includes a chapter on railroads in the north and south which covers Canada and Mexico. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color and written by an author with a number of authoritative titles to his credit, this book has been published in two other formats with over 40,000 copies sold. This new edition is in a mid-size format which would make a perfect addition to the collector’s bookshelf.
Author | : Reed Kinert |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0486141403 |
Relive train travel's earliest days with this splendidly illustrated story of steam locomotion, from "teakettles" to "titans." Working from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous accounts, the author re-creates, in accurate renderings, the earliest locomotives.
Author | : Nils Huxtable |
Publisher | : Metro Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781586632052 |
An era ended in 1960, when the major railroads in the United States dieselized. Having served the continent for more than a century, North America's most visible symbol of industrial supremacy was obsolete. In railroad yards everywhere, thousands of steam engines stood gathering rust or waiting silently for a call to service that never came; still more perished unceremoniously, sold off and cut up for scrap metal. But a handful of railroads went out of their way to keep steam alive. This stunning volume is a pictorial tribute to working steam in North America, beautifully illustrated and lovingly told. -- Includes prime examples of accurate restorations that illustrate the development of steam locomotives while evoking the mood of this exciting period in North American History -- Filled with discussions of the dedicated preservationists who have kept steam alive in an era when the cost of overhauling and maintenance has become an extravagance -- More than 100 pristine, black-and-white photographs capture some of the most beautiful and historic steam locomotives in operation today
Author | : Marie Cahill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780861248483 |
Author | : J. Parker Lamb |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003-07-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780253342195 |
Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mechanical engineering profession both grew directly out of the Industrial Revolution's need for sources of power beyond that of men and animals. Invented in England when coal mining was being developed, the practical steam engine eventually found numerous applications in transportation, especially in railroad technology. J. Parker Lamb traces the evolution of the steam engine from the early 1700s through the early 1800s, when the first locomotives were sent to the United States from England. Lamb then shifts the scene to the development of the American steam locomotive, first by numerous small builders, and later, by the early 20th century, by only three major enterprises and a handful of railroad company shops. Lamb reviews the steady progress of steam locomotive technology through its pinnacle during the 1930s, then discusses the reasons for its subsequent decline.
Author | : Christopher Chant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780785819783 |
Beginning with the introduction of the steam locomotive, followed by the development of iron railroads, the North American railroads impacted the nation in ways unseen by anyone before or since. Just under two centuries ago, not even the most gifted of visionaries could have foreseen the impact on the development of the United States of America that would follow the introduction of the steam locomotive. Then, in the second quarter of the 19th century, the trails of horse-drawn wagon trains were quickly followed by the iron railroads with steam locomotives hauling an ever larger and more diverse assortment of loads - humans, animal and freight. So while the horse may have opened up the North American continent, its real exploitation was made possible by the steam-hauled railroad service. Whereas it had taken weeks, if not months, to take long journeys within and across the U.S.A., the advent of the railroad permitted such journeys to be completed in days, or at worst weeks. While the steam locomotive did not complete the exploration and opening of the U. S. A., it was essential to its development in social, political and economic terms, in the last half of the 19th century turning a small, poorly populated and economically insignificant nation into a huge, rapidly growing and economically powerfully entity that had come to rival the most advance European nations.
Author | : William L. Withuhn |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0253039355 |
For nearly half of the nation's history, the steam locomotive was the outstanding symbol for progress and power. It was the literal engine of the Industrial Revolution, and it played an instrumental role in putting the United States on the world stage. While the steam locomotive's basic principle of operation is simple, designers and engineers honed these concepts into 100-mph passenger trains and 600-ton behemoths capable of hauling mile-long freight at incredible speeds. American Steam Locomotives is a thorough and engaging history of the invention that captured public imagination like no other, and the people who brought it to life.
Author | : Ken Gibbs |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445624257 |
Ken Gibbs tells the history of the engineering triumph that is a steam locomotive from the 1800s to the 1960s showing how each development changed the course of history.