American steam locomotives : design and development, 1880-1960 /
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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, IN : Pflugerville, TX :
Indiana University Press ; Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc.
[2019]
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| Series: | Railroads past and present.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77nq7 |
Table of Contents:
- High-wheeled racers
- More wheels and bigger fireboxes
- Vehicular design for horsepower
- Big wheels turning
- Compounding
- Superheating
- Francis Cole
- Locomotive safety regulation
- Leadership in industrial research
- Federal takeover
- The formative contest
- The steam locomotive's final form: the Texas type
- The steam locomotive's final form: the Hudson
- Streamlining
- The Northern
- Giants upon the Earth
- Counterpoint: why the diesel?
- Big Boy and Allegheny
- The T1 and poppet valves
- Norfolk & Western's Big Three
- Resisting the revolution
- Industrial beauty and the beholder.