Early American Locomotives
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Book Overview
Relive the early days of train travel with this exciting illustrated story of steam locomotion. Working with great love and skill from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486227723
ISBN13:9780486227726
Release Date:June 1972
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:142 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 11.4" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Very Fine Engravings
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I purchased this book over 20 years ago. This is a fantastic book of Steam Engine engravings. You won't find a better collection (at least I haven't.)
Early American Locomotives.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book is a collection of engravings from the 19th Century, each with minimal history. It is an absolute gem , a cache of information about locomotives from before the era of manufacturers photographs. Engravings were used as illustration in sales literature and publicity material, and so a wide variety of locomotive types are depicted covering more or less 1800-1900. The accuracy of the engravings is superb-in some cases it is possible to scale from an engraving to determine pipe sizes, nut bolt diameter etc. For the price this book cannot be beaten.
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