Download or read book The First Quarter century of Steam Locomotives in North America Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas with a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U S National Museum by Smith Hempstone Oliver written by Smith Hempstone Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter century of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Henry Townes and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter century of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Smith Hempstone Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter century of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter Century of Steam Locomotives in North America Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas with a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U S National Museum United States National Museum Bulletin 210 written by Smith Hempstone Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter century of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Henry Townes and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter Century of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Smith Hempstone Oliver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America: Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas With a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U. S. National Museum In that comparatively short time the steam locomotive had changed the United States from a small country with a few seaports, and with towns and settlements little farther inland than river navigation permitted, to a great nation covered with cities and spanning a continent. It had made possible the confederation of the isolated provinces of Canada into a great Dominion. Now, by the 1950's, owing to the emer gence Of another type of motive power, it had become Obsolete and its days could be numbered. N 0 future generation would experience the thrill enjoyed by its predecessors. NO future American could stand awed beside the track and behold the majestic onrush of the iron horse, be deafened by the blast of the exhaust, the crash and clatter Of steel on steel, and the hiss of escaping steam, or be momentarily shaken as the locomotive thundered past in a blurred ash Of connecting rods, valve mechanism, and pounding wheels. NO child at night would ever again awaken to the eerie echo Of a far-off steam whistle crying at a lonely crossing, or by day look out from a hillside at the long white plume of steam that marked a distant train charging down the valley below. The present generation Of Americans can gaze back upon these things with nostalgia. The next will never know them. Here and there a steam engine will be saved, but the people Of a different era will note them and quickly pass on, wondering. Only a few will pause to marvel and ponder over the development Of the steam locomotive. It is to the everlasting credit Of our forebears that some few examples and relics Of the early engines have been pre served; and the appearance Of this study Of them, coming in the final hour of the steam locomotive, is most appropriate. The author has gone to painstaking lengths to find and sift and bring together the most complete record ever compiled Of these examples and relics remaining of the earliest Of North American railway engines and of working replicas Of them. Students Of locomotive and railroad history are familiar with the almost impossible task confronting the researcher who undertakes to trace the history of early engines. The contemporary account is Often a will-o'-the-wisp pursued endlessly through the yellowed pages Of century-old news papers and books; the seemingly authentic fragment Of fact is found to be faulty just when it seems awlessly correct; the colorful description of some ephemeral engine Of the past just cannot be reconciled with contemporary accounts and finally proves to have been prepared long afterward, replete with the inaccuracies which most unfortunately result from the inroads made by time upon the recollections Of the most careful Observer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book First Quarter century of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Oliver Smith Hempstone and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U S National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarter centure of Steam Locomotives in North America written by Smith Hempstone Oliver and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the midpoint of the 20th century was reached, the curtain was falling upopn the final phases of steam locomotive operation in North America. It is proposed to deal here only with the relics and replicas of the historic steam locomotives used during the pioneer days of railroading on this continent, in the period 1825-1849. Of these, only 11 have survived in even reasonably complete form. With the remaining parts of several others, they are accounted museum treasures. Full sized operable replicas of 7 other famous early locomotives have been constructed. All these together afford a good idea of the actual construction of the locomotives of long ago.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the United States National Museum 1947 1970 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume comprehends the suppement and is a continuation of Bulletin 193. This is a list of publications of the United States National Museum covering the years 1947 thorugh 1970.
Download or read book Supplement 1 Publications of the United States National Museum written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This list is a supplement that brings current the list of publications such as annual report, bulletins, contributions from the U.S. Herbarium, and proceedings from 1947 to 1958.
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A List and Index of the Publications of the United States National Museum 1947 1958 written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
