Author Name: COMSTOCK, HENRY B.
Title: THE IRON HORSE, AMERICA'S STEAM LOCOMOTIVES: A PICTORIAL HISTORY.
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
Publisher: New York: Galahad Books, 1971.
Seller ID: 2313
An indepth study on the evolution of the steam locomotive, with 200 illustrations. From Richard Trevithick's five and a half ton engine, which opened the railway age in 1804 by claninking down a nine mile track in Wales, to the building of New York Centrals' long legged 999, and the most majestic steam engines ever constructed, the Union Pacific's 604-ton "Big-Boys." The book opens with a short history of the development of locomotives before they reached American Shores.
Orange cloth boards and spine. Illusttration of steam engine with numbered parts to e.p. DW not price clipped white, mild darkening, illustrated. Upper edge soil, old John Wanamaker sticker to lower corner flap end. All else very clean, solidly bound. 228 pp, 4to
Iron Horse, American Steam locomotives, Railroad inventors Railroad Lanterns, James Watt, Richard Trevithick, Railroad History, Oliver Evans Oruktor Amphibolis, Railroads, Steam Locomotives, Trains, History
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