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How Steam Locomotives Really Work
by Peter W B Semmens  Publisher Comments Steam locomotives were developed in the early part of the 19th Century, initially by Trevithick, and then most successfully by George Stephenson, whose engine Locomotion inaugurated the famous Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. For the next 150...
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Classic American Locomotives: The 1909 Classic on Steam Locomotive Technology
by Charles Leo McShane Publisher Comments Anyone who has watched in anticipation as a hundred tons of hot, black, smoky iron rolls into the station - or who thrills at the smell of creosote and the plaintive blue note of a steam whistle - will revel in Charles McShane's detailed examination of...
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The Willing Servant: A History of the Steam Locomotive
by David Ross Publisher Comments The railway locomotive was invented by a Cornishman called Richard Trevithick in February 1804. From small beginnings, this locomotive was responsible for the speed of industrialisation in many countries, for commuting, for tourism, for industrial...
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Memories of Steam: The Final Years
by Roger Siviter Publisher Comments Roger Siviter has gathered together a collection of top-quality photographs that illustrate the last three years of steam traction on Britain's railways. Drawing on his own vast archive, as well as those of other equally talented railway photographers...
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The Glorious Years
by Steam Railway Magazine (edt) Publisher Comments The Glorious Years is a collection of the best photographs to have graced the pages of Steam Railway magazine in recent years. Steam locomotives are intensely photogenic subjects, and this superb collection of over 150 images, taken before the...
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Early American Steam Locomotives
by Reed Kinert Publisher Comments 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 written contemporaneous accounts, author Reed Kinert re-creates in...
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History of North American Steam
by Christopher Chant Publisher Comments Informative text, specifications, and hundreds of illustrations illuminate the steam-powered era in North American rail history. Here is the most comprehensive historical account of this important aspect of American transportation history....
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American Steam Locomotive
by Brian Solomon Publisher Comments This handsome edition captures steam locomotives chugging across the scenic mountains, plains, and small towns of America. In addition to depicting these iron behemoths in action, the photos also give the reader an intimate view of engines being rebuilt,...
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Vanishing Steam: A Photographer's Odyssey Around the World
by Eric Langhammer Publisher Comments Eric Langhammer has been riding the rails around the world for a quarter-century in search of the last steam engines. Now on the brink of extinction, these magnificent mechanical beasts can still be found at China's Jingpeng Pass and throughout the faded...
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The Age of Steam
by Lucius Beebe Publisher Comments One glance at this classic portrait gallery will transport you to a time not so very long ago, when the railroad ruled America and trains steaming across the landscape were the ultimate in modernity. More than 500 illustrations capture this golden age of...
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Chesapeake & Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives
by Eugene L. Huddleston Publisher Comments This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake & Ohio was in the...
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History of North American Steam
by Christopher Chant Publisher Comments Informative text, specifications, and hundreds of illustrations illuminate the steam-powered era in North American rail history. Here is the most comprehensive historical account of this important aspect of American transportation history....
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Steam Trains: A Modern View of Yesterday's Railroads
by James P Bell Publisher Comments Few images speak as clearly of a time and a place as a dramatic black-and-white photograph of an American steam locomotive powering through that storied era of railroad history. All the new photographs in this beautiful book meticulously recreate that...
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North American Steam Locomotive Builders & Their Insignia
by Harold Davies Publisher Comments While the steam locomotive today has a place in our hearts, in earlier years it was the key to continental travel. This book gives a fascinating look into the successes and failures of the locomotive builders, then on the cutting edge of technology. Each...
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A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove the Industrial Revolution
by Thomas Crump Publisher Comments In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the...
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The Age of Steam: The Locomotives, the Railroads, and Their Legacy
by John Westwood Synopsis The power and romance of the age of steam are captured in this vividly illustrated chronicle of the steam trains and railways that forged a new era in transportation from 1830 onward Presenting the first opportunity for long-distance travel powered by...
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Ultimate Encyclopedia of Steam & Rail
by Colin Garratt Publisher Comments This comprehensive book charts the history of trains....
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Ultimate Encyclopedia of Steam & Rail
by Colin Garratt
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Legends of Steam
by Colin Garratt
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Great Steam Trains Americas Great Smoke
by Frederic Winkowski
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