Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Railroad Lighting written by Richard C. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some 770 pages, Barrett is only two-thirds finished (a third volume is due in 2004). This volume deals with lamps for bridges, yards, crossings, marker lamps, signals, and train order lamps. The markers became a vital tool and proliferated when trains began to run at night. Some fifteen companies' lamps are detailed here with some eight to nine hundred photos or drawings. A remarkable effort by a passionate collector.
Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Railroad Lighting written by Dick Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Railroad Lighting The railroad lantern written by Dick Barrett and published by Joseph Gross. This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As railroad fever began to consume North America, railroad lines began to get longer. Soon, the necessity of night operation became apparent. But night operation required light to see with & signal with. The railroad lighting industry was born. As competition increased, the manufacturers increased the pace of innovation to produce better products. Here is the story of that industry, its entrepreneurs, their companies & their products. Among its 28 chapters are the histories of ninety manufacturers, catalog cuts, photographs &/or descriptions of more than 360 railroad lantern models, plus chapters on globes, burners, distributors & jobbers. Six appendices cover rumored manufacturers, lantern terminology, lantern patents, the disastrous Steam Gauge & Lantern Company fire, lantern collectors organizations & lantern rarity. The book also has a lantern model index, a biographical index & a business name index. Here, indeed, is the book lantern collectors & lighting historians have been waiting for! Author Richard Barrett has been a lantern collector for 37 years. He is the Managing Editor of "Key, Lock & Lantern," a quarterly magazine for collectors of railroad artifacts, & is the coauthor of "CANAL BOATS, INTERURBANS, & TROLLEYS," a history of the Rochester, NY Subway. PUBLISHERS OF THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RAILROAD LIGHTING. To order, contact: Railroad Research Publications, 3400 Ridge Rd., Suite 5-266, Rochester, NY 14626-3495 or call 716-227-6903.
Download or read book Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Railway Locomotives written by P. Ransome-Wallis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative international survey reviews everything from standard steam engines, diesels and gas turbines to subways and electric motor coaches. Includes details of construction, problems of operation, and building methods. More than 300 illustrations, photographs.
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Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Railway Locomotives written by R. M. Tufnell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference book spanning 180 years of worldwide locomotive development, from the first railway journey using a steam engine in 1804 to the newest 186 mph French trains, with details on locomotive design.
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1955 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Download or read book Guide to Vintage Coleman Products 1900 1983 written by Darcy Vantiger and published by . This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectors Guide to lamps, lanterns, stoves and other products manufactured by the Coleman Company. Covers products made between the early 1900's through changes ending in 1983.
