Edward Hungerford 236 pages hardcover
This is a look at American Locomotives. This includes a look at early development of railroads in England, John Stevens, the Stourbridge Lion, the first american built locomotives, the Baltimore & Ohio's early locomotives, the Tom Thumb, the John Bull, early RRs in Pennsylvania, Matthias Baldwin, Norris Loco works, the DeWitt Clinton, engine building in Dunkirk and Schenectady, Tauntan Loco Works, Mason Loco Works, the American Type, early Locos in the Mid West, the first coal burning engines, the introduction of the safety Valve, Superheater and Air Brake, Vauclain Compounds, New York Central and the development of the Hudson Type, D&H Experimental engines, Pennsy K-4s, modern power on the C&O, B&O, and N&W, locomotive development on the West Coast, early engines of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe Type, motive power of the Burlington, the impact of Electrification and the introduction of the Diesel.
