American Locomotives in Historic Photographs: 1858 to 1949

by Ron Ziel

Book Overview

This rare collection of 126 "builder portraits" of American locomotives offers an exciting cavalcade of images that chronicle the momentous rise of steam locomotive power in America. Builder portraits are especially prized by railway historians because they are the exacting official photographs of new models taken before repairs, alterations, and weathering altered their original appearance. The builder portraits reprinted here were selected from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486273938
• ISBN13: 9780486273938
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 12.0"