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The pictorial story of railways / edited by E. L. Cornwell.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Oversize TF145 .P5 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornwell, E. L. (Edward Lewis), editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--History.
- Railroads.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 35 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crescent Books, [1974]
- Contents:
- Bull-head to flat-bottom
- Railways before locomotives
- George Stephenson
- The Stockton and Darlington
- Rainhill trials
- Locomotives or fixed engines
- The first main-line locomotives
- The great innovators
- The first railways in Europe
- The first railways in America
- Early railway workshops
- The railway mania
- Railway signaling
- The railways of Ireland
- Crewe
- Locos and men
- Steam in Germany
- Railways at war
- Kriegslocomotiven
- Development of the railway carriage
- Royals trains
- The North American railway carriage
- Railways of Scotland
- The world's great bridges
- The world's largest tunnels
- Rails across the Rockies
- Union Pacific Southern pacific Santa Fe
- The CPR Canadian
- Railways of Australia
- Railways of New Zealand
- The railways of India
- The railways of Figi
- Railways of Austria
- Jugoslavia
- Narrow Gauge Magnificent
- Railways through the Alps
- Spain
- Europe's last stronghold of steam
- The Narrow Gauge in Portugal
- Minor French railways
- Russian steam locomotives
- The first 100 MPH on rails
- Birth of electric traction
- How they build London's railways
- Underground
- Rubber tyred metros
- 135 years of railway tickets
- Big steam in South Africa
- The Hedjaz railway
- Railways on the roof of the world
- Steam in the Andes of Ecuador
- Monorails and all that
- Double deck trains
- Industrial steam
- Power unlimited
- the electric locomotive
- Japan's new Tokaido line
- Channel tunnel
- Ground transport of the future.
- Notes:
- Includes an index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dapper-Hallowell gift.
- OCLC:
- 1185445
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