Locomotives Steam Engineers Railways 6 eBooks On CD

Six Locomotive Books 

All On One CD

1. Modern Locomotive Construction: Fully Illustrated written in 1892 by J.G.A. Meyer Hall and is 665 pages in length. "It is the writer's intention to give in these chapters a general description of the principal parts of the modern locomotive, illustrated by good and correct drawings, and indicate the improvements that have been added... We may divide the different kinds of locomotives into two distinct classes; in one class we may place the ordinary passenger and freight locomotive, and in the other the switching engine and other locomotives designed for some special service. At present we will consider only the first class, namely, the passenger anu freight locomotives. These engines are again divided into four different classes, namely : 1st, the eight-wheeled engine; 2d, the Mogul engine; 3d, the ten-wheeled engine; 4th, the consolidation engine."

2. American Locomotive Engineers: Erie Railway Edition, Illustrated  by HR Romans in 1889 is 611 pages in length,  " The Erie has had to fight for existence since its birth ; and even before that event its friends had to shield it from the attacks of those who did not wish it to come into existence. The counties through which the Erie Canal passed looked upon the proposed railroad with distrust and envy... Any work purporting- to give a history of the engineers of the Erie and their exploits would indeed be incomplete if it failed to do justice to the most noteworthy undertaking ever conceived and carried through to successful conclusion by any like body—their famous World's Fair exhibit.

3. Baldwin Locomotive Works: Illustrated Catalogue  was written in 1881 and is 160 pages in length. "THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS dates its origin from the inception of steam railroads in America. Called into existence by the early requirements of the railroad interests of the country, it has grown with their growth and kept pace with their progress. It has reflected in its career the successive stages of American railroad practice, and has itself contributed largely to the development of the locomotive as it exists to-day. A history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, therefore, is, in a great measure, a record of the progress of locomotive engineering in this country, and as such cannot fail to be of interest to all who are concerned in this important element of our material progress."

4. Evolution of the Steam Locomotive by GA Sekon in 1899 has 337 pages with in excess of 200 illustrations. "In connection with the marvellous growth of our railway system there is nothing of so paramount importance and interest as the evolution of the locomotive steam engine. At the present time it is most important to place on record the actual facts, seeing that attempts have been made to disprove the correctness of the known and accepted details relative to several interesting, we might almost write historical, locomotives. In this work most diligent endeavours have been made to chronicle only such statements as are actually correct, without reference to personal opinions."

5. Lives of the Engineers: George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles in 1879 is 256 pages with many illustrations. "Since the appearance of this book in its original form, some seventeen years since, the construction of Railways has continued to make extraordinary progress. Although Great Britain, first in the field, had then, after about twenty-five years‘ work, expended nearly 300 millions sterling in the construction of 8300 miles of railway, it has, during the last seventeen years, expended about 288 millions more in constructing 7780 additional miles."

6. The Locomotives of The Great Northern Railway  by Geo Fredk Bird in 1910 has 254 pages, with 8 full page illustrations and 121 in the text. " In presenting a history of the various types of locomotives which have been constructed for the Great Northern Railway, the compiler is aware of many deficiencies in the work. So far from this being a history of the line, the following pages cannot claim to comprise anything more than a somewhat brief catalogue of locomotives, many of which have earned fame in the annals of railway development."