Early American Locomotives

Title: Early American Locomotives
Author: John H White
G: 1705814
ISBN: 9780486227726
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1972
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: No Edition Given
Number of Pages: 142
Section: Transportation | Railroads | General
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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 accounts, author Reed Kinert recreates, in exacting detail, illustrations of the earliest locomotives many of which were built and used before the advent of photography.
More than 100 illustrations, many in color, portray the venerable "iron horses" from the tiny Tom Thumb (which, early in its career, lost a race to a horse-drawn wagon) to vertical "teakettles" and "grasshoppers," and the streamlined "titans," outfitted with bells, whistles, and lights. Railroading enthusiasts, model rail hobbyists, and Americana buffs will be delighted with this expert pictorial-guided tour through the early days of the "iron horse.""