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Book A Climax Class a Live Steam Locomotive Model

Download or read book A Climax Class a Live Steam Locomotive Model written by Edward C. Hume, III and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live steamers and metalworking hobbyists will be delighted with this comprehensive work covering the design, construction, painting, and commissioning of a working steam locomotive model. The Climax Class A locomotive was the original Climax model with a two-cylinder upright motor combined with a two-speed transmission and skew bevel gears. This model for Gauge 1 track comes to life as 661 drawings, 358 color photographs, and detailed fabrication guidance all meld and resonate in the mind. But wait! This book is not just about building a locomotive model. Here is a source book of current shop techniques where CNC machining one-off parts is a paragraph and a photo away from old school soldering, bending and filing. Makers and doers will find the fabrication tips and advice to be invaluable. Detailed plans are also included for a carrier and case, test rollers, a stack blower, and an E-clip grooving tool for the lathe. Do not overlook the computer files that accompany the book on the publisher's download site. Where else will you find software program code to cut skew bevel gears and mill parabolic headlight dishes?

Book The Climax Locomotive

Download or read book The Climax Locomotive written by Dennis Thompson and published by Oso Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Climax No 9 and the Moore  Keppel Survivors

Download or read book Climax No 9 and the Moore Keppel Survivors written by Gerald Futej and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated history of the Moore, Keppel & Company logging company and its locomotives with emphasis on the history of M,K Climax No.6, a steam powered gear driven locomotive. Purchased new in 1919 it served for 40 years in the backwoods of West Virginia. Rescued by the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in 1971 it sat idle at Cass for 30 years more until a complete restoration to operation was begun in 2001. The restoration was completed in time for the 100 anniversary of the locomotive in 2019. Three other steam locomotives and a single diesel used by M,K and its "Middle Fork Railroad"are still in existence. The use of each of those machines, and their current status, are documented separately in the same book. 144 pages,------ B/W vintage and contemporary photos , ------ maps and ------ illustrations are included; 8-1/2 x 11 portrait format printed on glossy coated stock with laminated card stock cover.

Book The Little Engine That Could

Download or read book The Little Engine That Could written by Watty Piper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special anniversary edition of The Little Engine That Could™ contains the entire text and original artwork. Young readers, as well as parents and grandparents, will treasure the story of the blue locomotive who exemplifies the power of positive thinking.

Book The LEGO Trains Book

Download or read book The LEGO Trains Book written by Holger Matthes and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the model-making process from start to finish, including the best ways to choose scale, wheels, motors, and track layout. Get advice for building steam engines, locomotives, and passenger cars, and discover fresh ideas and inspiration for your own LEGO train designs. Inside you'll find: -A historical tour of LEGO trains -Step-by-step building instructions for models of the German Inter-City Express (ICE), the Swiss “Crocodile,” and a vintage passenger car -Tips for controlling your trains with transformers, receivers, and motors -Advice on advanced building tech­niques like SNOT (studs not on top), micro­striping, creating textures, and making offset connections -Case studies of the design process -Ways to use older LEGO pieces in modern designs For ages 10+

Book The Climax Patent Geared Locomotives

Download or read book The Climax Patent Geared Locomotives written by Climax Manufacturing Company and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mallard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Don Hale
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2019-09-02
  • ISBN : 0750992913
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Mallard written by Don Hale and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over eighty years ago on the East Coast main line, the streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph – a world record for steam locomotives that still stands. Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in York. Here, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was broken: from the nineteenth-century London–Scotland speed race and, surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design back to the Bugatti car and the influence of Germany's nascent Third Reich, which propelled the train into an instrument of national prestige. He also celebrates Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderful tribute to one of British technology's finest hours.

Book The Willamette Locomotive

Download or read book The Willamette Locomotive written by Steve Hauff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geared locomotive is important in the history of logging. It mechanized the transport of logs from forest to mill. The Willamette is but a footnote with only 33 ever built. Its impact belies the small number; it brought innovations later copied by the big players: Shay and Heisler. A useful and worthy contribution to the history of rail and logging. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book West Virginia Logging Railroads

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Warden
  • Publisher : Quarrier Press
  • Release : 2022-12-02
  • ISBN : 9781942294481
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book West Virginia Logging Railroads written by William Warden and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. This book explains--and illustrates with both color and black & white photographs--the operations of logging railroads in the state from about 1940-1960. It includes a fascinating look at the rapid and haphazard laying of track, the challenge of getting up the mountains, and the hazards of derailing locomotives. Warden's book addresses the romance of back woods railroading. With puffy white clouds in an azure blue sky, a Shay type narrow gauge geared locomotive on the Ely-Thomas Lumber Company's logging railroad hauls a train of logs toward the mill in June 1954. This scene is typical of the interesting West Virginia logging railroad operations that are portrayed in this book. In another Ely-Thomas Lumber Company scene, Shay No. 5 prepares to cross Manns Run, near the end of this narrow gauge logging line's life in October. William E. Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. He prepared this book to illustrate and explain the methods and operations of logging railroads in West Virginia in the last twenty years that they ran, ending about 1960. West Virginia was one of the nation's largest producers of lumber beginning in the late 19th Century and extending into the middle third of the 20th Century. It had hundreds of logging railroads carrying huge quantities of timber to mills for processing into finished lumber, which was then shipped all over the United States, again by rail. The lumber industry in West Virginia began its decline when the great stands of virgin forest began to be depleted, and by the 1950s, there were only a half-dozen or so operations left still using logging railroads. There remain many logging and lumber milling operations in the state, but today the logs are taken from the forest by motor truck to modern, highly automated mills. The romance of back woods railroading holds a particular allure and nostalgia today, even as it did when these last few lines were still operating. We are lucky that Bill Warden and others were there to photograph the last decades. The book treats in detail five of the last and largest companies to use logging railroads and illustrates each line in some detail. Also included are chapters about logging in West Virginia and the locomotives that were favorites of the loggers--the famous geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler types. Today tourists can experience some of the logging railroad flavor by riding the Cass Scenic Railroad over the old line of the Mower Lumber Company out of Cass, W.Va.

Book The Climax Locomotive in Australia

Download or read book The Climax Locomotive in Australia written by Arthur Winzenried and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book So You Want to Build a Live Steam Locomotive

Download or read book So You Want to Build a Live Steam Locomotive written by Joseph F. Nelson and published by Live Steam. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Train Robbery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Crichton
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-05-14
  • ISBN : 0307816443
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an enthralling novel about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

Book West Virginia s Last Logging Railroad

Download or read book West Virginia s Last Logging Railroad written by Philip V. Bagdon and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meadow River Lumber was formed in 1906, and by the 20s, it was the "World's Largest Hardwood Manufacturer." This was the most long-lived lumber operation- and is remembered as an especially compelling combination of geared steam power and mechanized logging. The last of Meadow's steamers were retired in the mid-1960s, when two found new homes on the Cass Scenic Railroad. This book celebrates Meadow River Lumber's grand saga through a comprehensive text, 127 photos and track system map.

Book The Black Locomotive

Download or read book The Black Locomotive written by Rian Hughes and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is built from concrete, steel and the creative urge. Old technology gives way to the new. Progress is inevitable - but is it more fragile than its inhabitants realise? A strange anomaly is uncovered in the new top-secret Crossrail extension being built under Buckingham Palace. It is an archeological puzzle, one that may transform our understanding of history - and the origins of London itself. And if our modern world falls, we may have to turn to the technology of the past in order to save our future.

Book The Model Railroader s Guide to Logging Railroads

Download or read book The Model Railroader s Guide to Logging Railroads written by Matt Coleman and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly illustrated book explains the business of logging railroads and provides examples of prototype operations. Photos of locomotives, equipment, and structures set the stage for modeling logging scenes and designing a logging layout.

Book A Century of Trains

Download or read book A Century of Trains written by Basil Cooper and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wood   Iverson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Schmelzer
  • Publisher : Oso Pub
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781931064019
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Wood Iverson written by Ken Schmelzer and published by Oso Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: