American Steam Locomotives

Klappentext William L. Withuhn (1941 2017) was the long-time transportation curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. He was a licensed locomotive engineer who ran dozens of steam engines! from saddle-tankers to Northerns. Withuhn was also the chairman of the Federal Railroad Administration's Engineering Standards Committee! which re-wrote regulations for the 21st century and thus helped ensure continued operation of heritage locomotives. He was author of The Spirit of Steam and Rails Across America.

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William L. Withuhn

Résumé
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.

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1. High-Wheeled Racers

2. More Wheels and Bigger Fireboxes

3. Vehicular Design for Horsepower

4. Big Wheels Turnin': A History of Counterbalancing

5. Innovation and Risk in Design: From Compound Cylinders to Superheating

6. Superheating: Design and Risk

7. Francis Cole and his Triumph of Empiracl Science

8. Locomotive Safety Regulation: The Locomotive Inspection Act of 1911 and the Nationwide Shopmen's Strike of 1922

9. Leadership in Industrial Research

10. Federal Takeover: Engineering and Politics -The U.S. Railroad Administration, 1917-1920

11. The Formative Contest

12. The Steam Locomotive's Final Form - The Hudson

13. The Steam Locomotive's Final Form - The Texas

14. The Steam Locomotive's Final Form - The Hudson - Part 2

15. The Steam Locomotive's Final Form - The Northern

16. Giants in the Earth

17. Counterpoint: Why the Diesel?

18. "Big Boy" and Allegheny: The Most Powerful of All

19. The T1 and Poppet Valves: The Last Important Innovation

20. The "Big Three" of the Norfolk & Western

21. Resisting the Revolution

22. Industrial Beauty and the Beholder