Iron Horse |
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| Author:
| Swift, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7858-2381-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Book Sales, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Chartwell |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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This book provides a type by type survey of the best American locomotives, discussing the great railroad companies, the manufacturers, the improvements in technology that allowed such leaps as increased pulling power, reliability, and serviceability, and which locomotives survive today. It does so by means of a wonderful collection of photographs, contemporary and modern.
This book provides a type by type survey of the best American locomotives, discussing the great railroad companies, the manufacturers, the improvements in technology that allowed such leaps as increased pulling power, reliability, and serviceability, and which locomotives survive today. It does so by means of a wonderful collection of photographs, contemporary and modern.