Catalog Search Results
1) Locomotive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Presents a visual exploration of America's early railroads, examining the sounds, speed, and strength of the fledgling transcontinental locomotives and the experiences of pioneering travelers.
2) Locomotive
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...
3) Locomotive
Author
Language
English
Description
Dicey found success with the band he was in. So he decides to break up the band and try his hand at a solo career. Except now he's failing. The old band doesn't want him back. Desperate to reinvent himself, he turns to his old love, a groupie.
Author
Language
English
Description
Railway art has existed as long as there have been Railways. Many famous names have included some aspect of railways in their paintings, notably Claude Monet and J M W Turner. This tradition has been kept alive by the formation in the UK of the Guild of Railway Artists, which now consists of over 200 artists, of which Jonathan Clay is one. Over the last few years, Jonathan has had many requests to produce his own book of pictures, and, having relented...
Author
Language
English
Description
This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick's first experimental road engine of 1801 up to the Great Exhibition some fifty years later, locomotives have come far in reimagining and reinventing themselves to serve the people and British industry.The early years showed slow development amongst locomotives: Trevithick's first railway locomotives failed significantly as the engine...
Author
Language
English
Description
MANAGEMENT CLEANING-DRIVING-MAINTENANCE BY the late JAS. T. HODGSON, M.1,Mech.E. RORMERLY CHIEP.ENGINEER AND SUPERINTENDENT OF WORKS, MUNICIPAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, MANCHESTER PRESIDENT, RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVEMENS CRAFT GUILD, MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT AND I CHAS. S. LAKE, M.I.Mech.E., M.1.Loco.E. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, THE RALWAY GAZETTE PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION THIS book was first published in 1908, and in 1928 reached its sixth edition.
Author
Language
English
Description
Have you ever been totally flummoxed? One imagines that we all have at one time or another. But, as dumbfounded, as Jason Rutkowski? On September 11, 2001, he's beside himself -- when so many people, in the Detroit area, appear to be completely unconcerned about 747s being flown into skyscrapers. An overwhelmingly-bewildering situation, for him! To add to his problems, he's summarily sent home early, from his job. He spots an old-time locomotive --...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The history of commercial railway locomotive manufacture in the Leeds is a fascinating story, covering a period of nearly two centuries, which commenced during the Napoleonic period and only came to an end in 1995. The two companies that most epitomized the formative years and period of consolidation of this this part of Britain’s industrial history were E.B. Wilson & Co (1846-59) and Manning Wardle & Co (1858-1927). The former manufacturer was...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book explores the social phenomenon of the rise and decline of trade unionism in 20th century Australia through the history of one particular union, Western Australia's longest running industrial union (1898–1999), the West Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers', Firemen's and Cleaners' Union WALEDF&CU. The union's history provides a means for examining the influence of the British industrial diaspora on the development of Australian trade unionism;...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Réunies dans le recueil La Locomotive ivre, ces nouvelles de Mikhaïl Boulgakov, chroniques de la Russie des années vingt, à l'ironie mordante, forment une peinture incisive de la société soviétique et nous plongent à travers ces textes, pour beaucoup inédits, dans l'ambiance de la Russie du communisme de guerre et celle de la NEP (Nouvelle Économie politique). Des récits lucides et sensibles, journal d'un monde qui bascule... des récits...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday. For more then a hundred years it courted disaster and could on a number of occasions have succumbed to overpowering financial pressures, but it survived with the help of partnerships with larger, more secure companies, namely the Midland Railway...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain's first mainline, intercity railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineered by George Stephenson and his team—John Dixon, William Allcard, Joseph Locke—the project faced many obstacles both before and after opening, including local opposition and the choice of motive power, resulting in the Rainhill Trials of 1829. Much of the success of the line can be attributed...
Author
Language
English
Description
The main character, Theopolis P. Bezelbottom, is the scion of a wealthy family of old-fashioned robber barons and leaders of industry. Theo just wants to live an indolent, irresponsible existence, doing as little as possible to maintain his common-law wife, children, and girlfriends in an easygoing life. He expects to inherit the main part of one of the major railroads of the country as well as control of Hawgwaller, an entire county in Appalachia,...
Author
Language
English
Description
This audio book is about the history of the locomotive. While the steam locomotive's basic principle of operation is simple, designers and engineers honed these concepts into 100-mph passenger trains and 600-ton behemoths capable of hauling mile-long freight at incredible speeds. American Steam Locomotives is a thorough and engaging history of the invention that captured public imagination like no other, and the people who brought it to life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans pacific in France, were the first of that wheel layout in Europe and came to be the dominant type for express passenger work throughout Western Europe...