Early American Steam Locomotives
- ISBN-10
- 0486141403
- ISBN-13
- 9780486141404
- Category
- Transportation
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-11-01
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Author
- Reed Kinert
Description
Relive train travel's earliest days with this splendidly illustrated story of steam locomotion, from "teakettles" to "titans." Working from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous accounts, the author re-creates, in accurate renderings, the earliest locomotives.
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