This American-type
4-4-0 engine is now running on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
having
been in both freight and passenger service since it left the shops. The
builders have experimented with the engine continually, with the idea
to develop and improve the engine as far as possible. They state that
they are now in position to go ahead and make comparisons between this
compound and the ordinary locomotive of the same class on the same
road. The economy in actual practice, while not exactly actual, so far,
has been so apparent that in these tests which are to be undertaken,
the company expect that a saving of at least 25 per cent, of fuel will
be made.
Photo design of
Peppercorn A1 Class Pacific 8P6F 4-6-2 TORNADO Steam Locomotive No
60163 Main Line Express Size: Small, Media: Basic: Poster, Overall
Size: 15.00" x 15.00"
This book is primarily
a photo album of Baltimore & Ohio's steam locomotive fleet from the
1920s through to the end of steam, and includes excellent photos from
Leonard Rice ...
Louisville &
Nashville Steam LocomotivesRevised 1968 EditionRichard E. Prince A
revised new edition of an encyclopedic study. "For over one hundred
years the steam ...
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 forefront with its 'Super Power, ' and this new book
systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and
performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in
1930 of the C&O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder
locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to
the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the
last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest
drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The
fascinating story of C&O Super Power involves not only the road's
own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close
association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even
closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of
Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating
examination of C&O Super Power, this book brings together over 175
photos, plus reproductions of C&O's own locomotive diagrams and an
ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in
Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to
the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will
offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with
surprise and delight.
The history of the
German railway system is not only the history of a means of
transportation that radically changed and accelerated traffic in
19th-century Germany - it is also a point of departure for an
industrialized society.On December 7 1835 the steam age began with the
legendary steam-powered Adler (`Eagle`) going from Nuremberg to
Fuerth.STEAM LOCOMOTIVES I highlights from 1835 until the end of World
War I and features historical documents as well as photos.Also in an
entertaining short movie the founders of the very first German railway
remember the Adler's history.
During the years
following World War I the railway played a very important part in the
newly democratic Germany. The railway was privatized and modernized as
quickly as possible and rapidly expanded after having been nearly
completely annihilated during the war.When the Nazis came to power in
1933 the railway was harnessed to serve their purposes and to spread
terror under Hitlers dictatorship. It played a decisive role in the War
of Extermination in Eastern Europe and in the deportation of millions
of people to concentration camps.STEAM LOCOMOTIVES II provides a
detailed history of that era with a profusion of historical facts
documents pictures and interviews with leading historians.
