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Book The Steam Era in New Jersey  1930 1945

Download or read book The Steam Era in New Jersey 1930 1945 written by Charles P. Caldes and published by charles caldes. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railfan   Railroad

Download or read book Railfan Railroad written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Resource Study

Download or read book Historic Resource Study written by A. Berle Clemensen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Majesty of Big Steam

Download or read book The Majesty of Big Steam written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the romance and power of the steam locomotive era, the product of a century of continuous research and development. In the United States, the final decades of steam power were characterized by very large and capable locomotives. Beginning in the 1920s with Alco's three-cylinder types and Lima's "Super Power" concept, steam locomotive design crossed new thresholds of power and efficiency. A host of new wheel arrangements combined with innovative technology and new materials to create a final generation of refinement. Lima's Berkshire of 1925 demonstrated the value of the four-wheel radial trailing truck in its ability to support a firebox large enough to supply high power and fast running. Within a few years the 2-10-4 Texas, 4-6-4 Hudson, and 4-8-4 Northern had led the way, and by the late 1920s, large modern articulated types were taking shape. The Majesty of Big Steam is full of these late-era locomotives, the last generation of steam power before the diesels took over. Dramatic photos show Berkshires, Hudsons, and Northerns at work, as well as massive articulateds at their finest. Witness New York Central's Great Steel Fleet being whisked along behind some of the most refined American-designed engines. See Southern Pacific's cab-forward oil burners crest the California Sierra, and Baltimore & Ohio's EM-1 war babies lift tonnage over the Appalachian mountains. Norfolk & Western continued to refine 4-8-4s and articulated types, even as the rest of America was buying diesels, and ran these well-oiled machines longer than any other line. Don't miss a single one!

Book Fashion in Steel  Streamlined Steam Locomotives in North America

Download or read book Fashion in Steel Streamlined Steam Locomotives in North America written by Jan Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book collects and describes every known North American streamlined - or semi-streamlined - steam locomotive with photographs of every class and every significant design variation and it packages those descriptions with information about the locomotives' origins, service lives and ultimate destinies."--Book

Book More Classic American Railroads

Download or read book More Classic American Railroads written by Mike Schafer and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie? Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British Army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. But an unforgettable incident darkened that happy time. In 1908, Colonel Crawford's regiment discovered that it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people in India and England yet was never brought to trial. In the eyes of many of these soldiers, men defined by honor and duty, the crime was a stain on the regiment's reputation and on the good name of Bess's father, the Colonel Sahib, who had trained the killer. A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying Indian sergeant that the supposed murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive—and serving at the Front. Bess cannot believe the shocking news. According to reliable reports, Wade's body had been seen deep in the Khyber Pass, where he had died trying to reach Afghanistan. Soon, though, her mind is racing. How had he escaped from India? What had driven a good man to murder in cold blood? Wanting answers, she uses her leave to investigate. In the village where the first three killings took place, she discovers that the locals are certain that the British soldier was innocent. Yet the present owner of the house where the crime was committed believes otherwise, and is convinced that Bess's father helped Wade flee. To settle the matter once and for all, Bess sets out to find Wade and let the courts decide. But when she stumbles on the horrific truth, something that even the famous writer Rudyard Kipling had kept secret all his life, she is shaken to her very core. The facts will damn Wade even as they reveal a brutal reality, a reality that could have been her own fate.

Book America  History and Life

Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Book The World Book Encyclopedia

Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and high school students.

Book Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861 1865

Download or read book Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861 1865 written by New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Americans of Italian Descent in New Jersey

Download or read book Americans of Italian Descent in New Jersey written by Joseph William Carlevale and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Companion to United States History

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to United States History written by Paul S. Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
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  • Release : 1946
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  • Pages : 1246 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Naval Aviation  1919 1941

Download or read book United States Naval Aviation 1919 1941 written by E.R. Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within six months of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy had checked the Japanese military advance in the Pacific to the extent that the United States could return to its original "Defeat Germany First" strategy. That the Navy was able to accomplish this feat with only six fleet aircraft carriers and little more than 1,000 combat aircraft was not sheer luck but the culmination of more than two decades of determined preparation. This thorough study, with detailed drawings and photographs, explains and illustrates the trial and error process which went into developing the aircraft, airships and ships of the interwar period. The critical factors that shaped Naval Aviation after World War I--naval treaties, fleet tactics, government programs, leadership and organization, as well as the emergence of Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation--are discussed in depth.

Book RailNews

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  • Release : 1998
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  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book RailNews written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sheffield Steel and America

Download or read book Sheffield Steel and America written by Geoffrey Tweedale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an important contribution to the technological and commercial history of crucible and electric steelmaking by thoroughly examining its development in Sheffield and American centres such as Pittsburgh. It also discusses cutlery, saw and file manufacturing, where the Americans quickly shed Sheffield's traditional technologies and, with the help of superior marketing, established a word lead by 1900. It is also shown, however, that this did not free the US from its dependence on Sheffield steel. Sheffield's innovation in special steelmaking, which began with the Hunstman crucible process in 1742, continued with a series of brilliant 'firsts', which gave the world tool, manganese, silicon, vanadium and stainless steel alloys. Thus the US continued to draw from Sheffield know-how, even in the twentieth century - a transfer of technology that was facilitated by the foundation of Sheffield's own subsidiary firms in America, the history of which is recounted here.

Book Insatiable Appetite

Download or read book Insatiable Appetite written by Richard P. Tucker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive and critical historical overview of the role played by the US as a developer and consumer of tropical nature. -- Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.