Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives written by Eugene L Huddleston and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake & Ohio was in the forefront with its 'Super Power,' and this new book systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in 1930 of the C&O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The fascinating story of C&O Super Power involves not only the road's own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating examination of C&O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&O's own locomotive diagrams and an ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with surprise and delight.
Download or read book Lima Super Power Steam Locomotives written by Thomas W. Dixon Jr and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to give a detailed treatment of every class of "super Power" stem locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works, and to explain their use on the various railroads which bought them. The book explains the development of the Super Power concept, and how it was applied to nearly 700 of the finest steam locomotive in America in the period from the mid-1920s until 1948. It presents detailed data tables, photos, and history of each locomotive class railroad-by-railroad, with photos of all types.
Download or read book Super Power Steam Locomotives written by Richard J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio K 4 Class 2 8 4 Steam Locomotives written by Thomas W. Dixon Jr and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of the C&O's famous K-4 Kanawha types, probably the most versatile of all C&O steam classes. Operated between 1943 and 1956, they handled fast freight, mainline coal trains, branch line coal trains, local freights, and passenger trains on almost every part of the C&O system. "This book gives diagrams of all orders encompassing the 90 locomotives, an HO scale mechanical drawing by Bob Hundman, and detailed history of the operations of these engines throughout their lives, illustrated by over 110 photos. Map and many tables of specifications are included.
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio written by Thomas W. Dixon and published by Carstens Publications. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio Railway written by Thomas Dixon and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This C&O history by C&OHS Chief Historian Thomas W. Dixon Jr. is fully illustrated with great photos from the C&OHS Collection. It is a short but detailed history of C&O from the days of Louisa Railroad of the 1830s to the C&O/B&O era of the 1960s. It covers people, events, development, structures, cars, locomotives, physical plant, and corporate history of the C&O. An excellent book for the casual reader and a great reference for the researcher!
Download or read book C O Power written by Philip Shuster and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chesapeake and Ohiio Hudson Type Steam Locomotives written by Karen Parker and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the complete history of C&O's L-2 and L-2a class 4-6-4 Hudson type locomotives as well as the L-1 class that the C&O itself rebuilt as streamlined engines from F-19 class 4-6-2 Pacifics. Complete mechanical descriptions as well as operational history for each of these classes that were used primarily between Hinton, WV and western terminals at Huntington, Cincinnati, and Detroit. The L-1 streamlined engines were last used Charlottesville - Washington and Charlottesville-Newport News. Over 100 illustrations and drawings.
Download or read book C o Railway Series 26 written by Bill Harouff and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These locomotives operated by C&O are among the least known and seldom writtenabout motive power. The B-1, 2, 3, 4 classes were all inherited or purchased second hand.They operated mainly east of Charlottesville, Va. until the end of steam. Story of C&O's floatingoperations on the Ohio River from the steamboat era of 1873 through the ferriesthat continued to operate into the 1950s. An unusual railway function never fully covered before.
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio 2 8 0 Consolidation Steam Locomotives written by Thomas W. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio Heavy Pacific Locomotives written by Karen Parker and published by Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the Chesapeake & Ohio's F-17, F-18, and F-19 Classes of Heavy Pacific type locomotives. In the Age of Steam these locomotives were the railroad's premier passenger locomotives, handling all the name trains on the lower grade portions of the C&O's main line, between Cincinnati, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Hinton, W. Va. and between Charlottesville, VA., Washington, D.C. and Newport News, VA.
Download or read book Classic North American Steam written by Nils Huxtable and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious, large (10.5 x 14.75") reprint of the 1990 original edition of Gallery Books, a division of W.H. Smith. The present incarnation manifests better resolution & greater contrast in the many b & w photos. Impressive book at a tiny price (a promotional book). An era ended in 1960, when the major railroads in the United States and Canada dieselized.
Download or read book The Chesapeake Ohio Railway in Clifton Forge Virginia written by Thomas W. Dixon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncle Sam s Locomotives written by Eugene L. Huddleston and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Sam's Locomotives looks at these magnificent locomotives and discusses how and why the designs were chosen, how they related to existing designs, what standardization entailed, and how each performed.".
Download or read book Chesapeake Ohio Mountain Type Locomotive written by Karen Parker and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illustrated Directory of North American Locomotives written by Pepperbox Press and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 250 classic American locomotives. "Let the country but make the railroads, and the railroads will make the country." — Edward Pease During the mid-1800s, American railroads became the lifeblood of new communities in the West and brought new ways of life and means of commerce to rural communities. Railroads became the shining thread that tied together the tapestry of American life into a land of plenty. The Illustrated Dictionary of North American Locomotives explores the story of railroads and their motive power. Giant beasts of iron and steel once roamed the land. Their descendants still race across the country. This book charts the progress of motive power on America's railroads from 1830 until the present. Its 432 pages illustrate a wide variety of grand and humble locomotives from the steam powered Puffing Billy types of the "Early Days" chapter, to the mighty Allegheny class steamers that were used to haul coal for the American industry in the "Steam in Charge" chapter. Technical specifications are given for each engine type and the book is fully illustrated with both black & white and color photos. The book goes on to show the progress of Diesel Power, including the output of General Electric and General Motors electromotive division (EMD) from the 1920s to the present. Ultimately, the book also explores the Electric Power that powers so many of today's railways.
