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How a Steam Locomotive Works |  | Author: Karen Parker
Publisher: TLC Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 21422
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0939487896
Dewey Decimal Number: 385
EAN: 9780939487899
ASIN: 0939487896
Publication Date: June 15, 2009
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Product Description
96 pages, 8.5x11, color laminated hardcover, glosdsy paper, b/w photos throughout.
"This book examines how a modern steam locomotive works, inlcuding all its major sub-systems and appliances. Illustrations show how each part of the locomotive fits into the overall machine, some background on each aspect of each function, and examples of representative locomotives from a wide variety of railroads all over the U.S."
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A Book That Does What It Says..... October 16, 2009
Steve Brist (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have worked as a steam locomotive fireman at a rail museum and I hold a Traction Engineer license in the State of Minnesota and I buy a lot of old steam technical books. I was pleasantly surprised that this book is more than just another simple overview of how steam locomotives work. For a relatively slim volume of less than 100 pages, this book goes into detail and uses classic illustrations of individual components. Many of the illustrations are from the "C&O Manual for Locomotive Firemen". There are sidebars called "Technical Details" on subjects such as poppet valves, counterbalancing, tractive effort and piston thrust, train resistance and even the Bernoulli effect. The introduction is written by Bill Withuhn of the Smithsonian. This book is much more than "the boiler makes the steam, and steam pushes the piston". At the same time, I think it is written in a way that a newcomer will understand it. I wish this book was available 20 years ago when I first got interested in this hobby.
How a steam locomotive works - understanding history. August 28, 2009
Michael G. Lesh (Upstate New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So many people today don't understand how anything works, and need a little more than 'forced' teaching. This is an easy to read, and well written book that gives the fundamentals of the steam powered locomotives of the past. It won't turn anyone into an engineer, but gives the reader an understanding of what made these engines work.
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