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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Four seasons of railroading across the United States. Steam in the spring starts a saga with eight rail journeys pulling passengers and freight all over the USA from New Mexico to Michigan and Ohio to Owosso. Steam in the summer features six steamers including Colorado's Eureka & Palisade locomotive #4 built in 1875, and the Ohio Central's passenger train gliding through Amish country. Steam in the autumn offers seven excursions throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"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...