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Locomotive Engineering, and The Mechanism of Railways: A Treatise on The Principles and Construction of The Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant, With Examples (2 volumes; London et al.: W. Collins, Sons, and Co., 1871), by Zerah Colburn and D. K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Record. ([Philadelphia], 1889), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
Union Pacific locomotives (Barnhart Press, 1960), by William W. Kratville and Harold E. Ranks (page images at HathiTrust)
The world's rail way, historical, descriptive, illustrative (Winchell Printing Company, 1894), by J. G. Pangborn (page images at HathiTrust)
Motive power development on the Pennsylvania Railroad system, 1831-1924 ([s.n.], 1924), by Paul Theodore Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report. (New York City, 1902), by American Locomotive Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive mechanism and engineering. (J. Wiley & sons, 1894), by H. C. Reagan (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotives: simple, compound, and electric. (J. Wiley & sons [etc., etc.], 1907), by H. C. Reagan (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroads in the Lehigh River Valley. (Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, inc., 1962), by Randolph L. Kulp and National Railway Historical Society. Lehigh Valley Chapter (page images at HathiTrust)
The railways of the world (G. Routledge & sons, ltd.;, 1914), by Ernest Protheroe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The permanent way and coal-burning locomotive boilers of European railways; with a comparison of the working economy of European and American lines, and the principles upon which improvement must proceed. (Holley & Colburn, 1858), by Zerah Colburn, Julius Bien, and Alexander Lyman Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
Report to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, on the comparative merits of locomotive and fixed engines, as a moving power. (Carey & Lea, 1831), by James Walker, Henry Booth, Joseph Locke, and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
Les chemins de fer en 1862 et en 1863 / par Eugène Flachat. (L. Hachette, 1863), by Eugène Flachat (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité des chemins de fer (Fanchon et Artus, 1898), by Auguste Moreau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The iron road (J. F. Shaw & co., ltd., 1926), by Cecil J. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of Mechanical Advisory Committee to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation : motive power for steam railroads, electrification of steam railroads, freight cars, freight transport equipment, passenger cars : December 27, 1935. (s.n., 1936), by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation. Mechanical Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual of locomotive running shed management. (C. Griffin & company, limited, 1925), by Walter Paterson and Harry Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pennsy power (Printed by the Standard Print. & Pub. Co., 1962), by Alvin F. Staufer, Martin Flattley, and Bert Pennypacker (page images at HathiTrust)
A century of locomotive building by Robert Stephenson & Co., 1823-1923 (A. Reid & Co, 1923), by James G. H. Warren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Forty years a locomotive engineer; thriling tales of the rail (C.H. O'Neil, 1913), by J. Harvey Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
Improvements in locomotive engines, and railways. (Gazette office, Wright, Fisher & co., printers, 1849), by George Escol Sellers (page images at HathiTrust)
The modern locomotive (The University press;, 1912), by C. Edgar Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The locomotive engine : including a description of its structure, rules for estimating its capabilities and practical observation on its construction and management (Redding, 1851), by Zerah Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern American locomotive engines : their design, construction and management : a practical work for practical men (H.C. Baird ;, 1883), by Emory Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
The steam locomotive, its theory, operation and economics, including comparisons with Diesel-electric locomotives (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co., 1944), by Ralph Paine Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotive of to-day. (The Locomotive publishing co., ltd., 1927), by ltd. Locomotive publishing co. (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotive up to date (Griffin & Winters, 1899), by Chas. McShane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The locomotive up to date. (Griffin & Winters, 1920), by Chas. McShane and Charles Leo McShane (page images at HathiTrust)
Traccion en vías férreas... (Impr. del Memorial de ingenieros, 1877), by José Marvá y Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
The railway locomotive, what it is and why it is what it is (A. Constable & co., ltd., 1908), by Vaughan Pendred (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A manual of locomotive engineering. (C. Griffin & company, limited, 1909), by William Frank Pettigrew (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern locomotives : illustrations, specifications and details of typical American and European steam and electric locomotives. (Railroad Gazette, 1897), by J. C. Whitridge and David Leonard Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern locomotives : illustrations, specifications and details of typical American and European steam and electric locomotives. (Railroad Gazette, 1901), by J. C. Whitridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Twentieth century locomotives, treating on the designing, construction, repairing and operating of railway machinery ... (Railway and locomotive engineering, 1904), by Angus Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
Principles of locomotive operation and train control (McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1915), by Arthur Julius Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Principles of locomotive operation, a study of the modern locomotive and air brakes formerly published under the title "Principles of locomotive operation and train control" (McGraw-Hill book company, 1925), by Arthur Julius Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Men, steam and the driven wheel (House of Tuttle, 1939), by Edward Yeomans (page images at HathiTrust)
A practical evaluation of railroad motive power. (Steam Locomotive Research Institute, 1947), by P. W. Kiefer (page images at HathiTrust)
A description of Cochrane's binary locomotive engine. (Printed by James Young, 1854), by John Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
How oil is used for fuel on locomotives. (The World railway publishing co. , 1902), by Marshall M. Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive breakdowns, emergencies and their remedies. (The N. W. Henley publishing co., 1903), by George Little Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
Nathan Read: his invention of the multi-tubular boiler and portable high-pressure engine, and discovery of the true mode of applying steam-power to navigation and railways. A contribution to the early history of the steamboat and locomotive engine. (Hurd and Houghton, 1870), by David Read (page images at HathiTrust)
Encyclopedia of railroading ... (National text book company, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
Die locomotive "Der Münchner" erbaut auf dem ritter von Maffaiʹschen eisenwerke (München, 1842), by Steinheil (page images at HathiTrust)
Description and specification of a new system of locomotive engines for railways ... (R. Eaton, print, 1854), by George L. Vose (page images at HathiTrust)
Einleitung und allgemeines. (W. Engelmann, 1908), by Alfred Birk, H. Zimmermann, and Ferdinand Loewe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue of the mechanical engineering collection in the United States National museum; motors, locomotives, and self-propelled vehicles (Govt. print., 1922), by United States National Museum and Carl Weaver Mitman (page images at HathiTrust)
Die lokomotive in kunst, witz und karikatur. (Hanomag, Hannoversche maschinenbau-actien-gesellschaft, 1922), by Hannoversche maschinenbau-actien-gesellschaft and Fliegende blätter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A record of the transportation exhibits at the World's Columbian exposition of 1893. (Offices of "Engineering";, 1894), by James Dredge (page images at HathiTrust)
British expresses. (Locomotive Pub. Co., 1898) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Von eisernen Pferden und Pfaden; Lebensbilder aus dem Reiche der Lokomotive, mit zahlreichen Original-Beiträgen bedeutender Eisenbahnmaler und - Dichter, der deutschen Industrie sowie schweizerischen und österreichischen Bahnen. Mit 20 mehrfarbigen und 400 einfarbigen Kunstdrucktafeln. (Verlag und Druck der Göhmannschen Buchdr., 1924), by Walter Strauss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railway. (T. Kelly, 1837), by Luke Hebert (page images at HathiTrust)
Railways and locomotives. Lectures delivered at the School of military engineering at Chatham in 1877. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1882), by John Wolfe Wolfe Barry and Frederick Joseph Bramwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbuch für specielle Eisenbahn-Technik ... (W. Engelmann, 1871), by Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg (page images at HathiTrust)
Le strade ferrate ... (U. Hoepli, 1890), by Leonardo Loria (page images at HathiTrust)
Minnesskrift med anledning av Motala verkstads hundraåriga verksamhet, 1822-1922 (Centraltryckeriet, 1922), by Aktiebolaget Lindholmen-Motala (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The chronicles of Boulton's siding ... (The Locomotive publishing company, ltd., 1927), by A. R. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
The model locomotive engineer, fireman, and engine-boy: comprising a historical notice of the pioneer locomotive engines and their inventors ... (C. Lockwood and co., 1896), by Michael Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
The model locomotive engineer, fireman, and engine-boy: comprising a historical notice of the pioneer locomotive engines and their inventors ... (C. Lockwood and co., 1879), by Michael Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
Cenni sugli ultimi perfezionamenti delle macchine a vapore locomotive, preceduti da alcuni princípi generali di termodinamica ... (P. Dupont, 1867), by Leonardo Carpi (page images at HathiTrust)
Chemins de fer. Locomotive et matériel roulant ... (Vve C. Dunod et P. Vicq, 1896), by Maurice Demoulin (page images at HathiTrust)
A rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine in all its phases: popularly described, with illustrations for students and nonprofessional men. (J. Weale, 1856), by G. Drysdale Dempsey (page images at HathiTrust)
A rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine in all its phases : popularily described, with illustrations for students and nonprofessional men (J. Weale, 1857), by G. Drysdale Dempsey (page images at HathiTrust)
A rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine in all its phases: popularly described, with illustrations for students and nonprofessional men. (J. Weale, 1859), by G. Drysdale Dempsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Abbildung und Beschreibung der Locomotive-maschine nach den besten und neuesten Constructionen. (Kreidel und Niedner, 1958), by Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg and Heinrich Wilhelm August Clasz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die dampflokomotive in entwicklungsgeschichtlicher darstellung ihres gesamtaufbaues (J. Springer, 1924), by John Jahn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The steam locomotive, its theory, operation and economics, including comparisons with Diesel-electric locomotives (Simmons-Boardman publishing corporation, 1945), by Ralph Paine Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive boilers and engines ... (American School, 1924), by Llewellyn V. 1875- Ludy and Ill.) American School (Lansing (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotive up to date. (Griffin & Winters, 1903), by Chas. McShane (page images at HathiTrust)
Betrachtungen über die lokomotiven der jetztzeit für eisenbahnen mit normalspur ... (C.W. Kreidel, 1884), by Heinrich Maey (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual of locomotive engineering, with an historical introduction; a practical text-book for the use of engine builders, designers, and draughtsmen, railway engineers, and students. With a section on American and continental engines (C. Griffin, 1899), by William Frank Pettigrew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railway mechanical engineering; a practical treatise by engineering experts. (The Gresham publishing company, ltd., 1923), by A R Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical railroading; a new, complete and practical treatise on steam, electric and motor car operation ... written expressly for the master mechanic, traveling engineer, locomotive engineer and fireman. (Stanley institute, 1913), by Oscar Centennial Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
Ajax loquitur; or, The autobiography of an old locomotive engine (C. Lockwood and son, 1899), by Robert Weatherburn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive engine driving; a practical manual for engineers in charge of locomotive engines (C. Lockwood and son., 1870), by Michael Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
American v. English locomotives. Correspondence, criticism and commentary respecting their relative merits. (Egbert K. Pease, printer and stationer, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
A commentary on criticisims concerning American v. English locomotives, with testimony by English engineers. (E.K. Pease, printer, 1880), by Walton W Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
A practical evaluation of railroad motive power. (Simmons-Boardman publishing corp., 1948), by Paul Walter Kiefer (page images at HathiTrust)
Sistema di locomotiva ad elice per superare le forti pendenze sulle ferrovie (A. Grancini, 1868), by Giuseppe Grassi and W. S. Moorsom (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive a gaz avec suppression de la fumée et de la vapeur d'échappement, ou Application aux machines locomotives du chauffage au gaz économique par combustion complète et sous volume constant. (E. Lacroix, 1872), by Paul Charpentier (page images at HathiTrust)
Articulated locomotives of the Western Pacific. (Golden West Books, 1959), by Mark Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
Breslauer aktien-gesellschaft für eisenbahnwagenbau und Maschinen-bauanstalt Breslau. Abteilung: Lokomotiv-und maschinenbau ... (Druck der Schlesischen buchdruckerei, 1906), by Breslauer aktien-gesellschaft für eisenbahnwagenbau und Maschinen-bauanstalt Breslau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Notice historique sur l'emploi de l'air comprimé considéré comme force motrice et comme agent de locomotion; comprenant l'histoire des diverses applications qui en ont été faites et des nombreuses expériences dont il a été l'object depuis 1795 jusqu'à nos jours ... (Au bureau du Journal des mines, 1858), by A P H Gaugain (page images at HathiTrust)
Valsts dzelzceḷu lokomotīves. 1. jūlijā 1928. gadā. (Mašīndirekcijas izdevums, 1928), by Latvia. Dzelzceḷu virsvalde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Handbuch für Locomotiven-Führer, enthaltend eine theoretisch-practische Anweisung über die Einrichtung, Behandlung und Führung der Locomotiv-Dampfmaschinen. (B.F. Voigt, 1846), by E. Flachat, Carl Hartmann, Jean Barthélemy Camille Polonceau, L. Le Chatelier, and Jules Pétiet (page images at HathiTrust)
Lokomotivlära, pa uppdrag af Kungl. järnvägsstyrelsen ... 1910. (Svenska boktryckeri-aktiebolaget, 1910), by Elis B Höjer and Sweden. Järnvagsstyrelsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Self-contained railway motor cars and locomotives. Prepared especially for the instruction and training of students of the American school ... (American school, 1931), by Raymond S 1888- Zeitler and Ill.) American School (Lansing (page images at HathiTrust)
Automatic and fluid transmissions. (Macmillan, 1961), by John George Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
Round the works of our great railways (E. Arnold, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité complet des chemins de fer; historique et organisation financière, construction de la plate-forme, ouvrages d'art, voies, stations, signaux, matériel roulant, traction, exploitation, de fer à voie étroite, tramways. (C. Béranger, 1908), by G. Humbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the Mechanical advisory committee to the Federal coordinator of transportation ... ([Washington, D.C.], 1935), by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
Résumé du cours de machines à vapeur et locomotives : professé à l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées (Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1898), by J. Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
The resistance of locomotives and trains : and the water- and coal-consumption and power of locomotives (Lawrence Asylum Press, 1900), by Albert Frank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Some recent developments in locomotive practice (Whittaker & Co., 1902), by Charles John Bowen Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité pratique de la machine locomotive ... (Librairie polytechnique, Baudry et Cie, 1898), by Maurice Demoulin (page images at HathiTrust)
Atlas of the engravings to illustrate and pictorially explain the locomotive engine in all its phases (J. Weale, 1859), by G. Drysdale Dempsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Locomotive committee on standard locomotives for Indian railways. (C. Lockwood & Son, 1905), by British Standards Institution and Leslie Stephen Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive operation; a technical and practical analysis (Railway Age, 1904), by G. R. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
The cost of locomotive operation (The Railroad gazette, 1906), by G. R. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive management, break-downs and their cures, including questions and answers for first, second and third years̓ examinations for promotion, and studies on mallet compounds and electric head-light. (The Britton Printing Co., 1917), by Donald Robertson MacBain (page images at HathiTrust)
Compound Locomotives, train rules, car lighting, car heating (International Textbook Co., 1906), by International Correspondence Schools and International Textbook Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive boilers, valve gears, breakdowns (International Textbook Co., 1906), by International Textbook Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive Firemen's magazine (The Brotherhood, 1901), by Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's magazine (The Brotherhood, 1907), by Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (page images at HathiTrust)
The world's locomotives : a digest of the latest locomotive practice in the railway countries of the world (P. Marshall, 1905), by Charles S. Lake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotives of 1907. (P. Marshall & Co., 1908), by Charles S. Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers relative to the recent contracts for motive power (Printed by J. Lucas & Son, 1857), by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The compound locomotive; supplement to the Science of railways. (The World Railway Pub. Co., 1899), by Marshall M. Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotive engine ... (Carey, 1873), by Zerah Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)
Steam locomotive construction and maintenance, describing workshop equipment and practice in the construction of modern steam railway locomotives with notes on inspection, testing, maintenance and repairs (Sir I. Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1921), by Ernest Leopold Ahrons (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive appliances; supplement to "The science of railways," (The World railway publishing co., 1902), by Marshall M. Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Lectures on superheating on continental locomotives : delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers at the invitation of the University of London (University of London Press, 1911), by Ed. Sauvage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The railway locomotive : what it is and why it is what it is (D. Van Nostrand Co., 1908), by Vaughn Pendred (page images at HathiTrust)
Hauling coal safely with permissible storage-battery locomotives (United States Bureau of Mines, 1930), by C. W. Owings and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
Comparison of storage-battery and cable-reel gathering locomotives in a West Virginia coal mine (United States Bureau of Mines, 1931), by C. W. Owings and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
La locomotive actuelle etude general sur les types receuts de locomotives a grande puissance ... : Complement au traite pratique de la machine locomotive. (Beranger, 1906), by Maurice Demoulin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Compound locomotives in France (Pub. by the Institution, 1904), by Édouard Sauvage and Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Schule des Locomotiv-fuhrers; Handbuch... (Weisbaden, 1890), by I. Brosius and R. Koch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Illustrated catalogue of locomotives. (Philadelphia : Press of J.B. Lippincott & Co., [1872?], 1872), by Baldwin Locomotive Works and M. Baird & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Illustrated catalogue of simple and compound locomotives. (Philadelphia, 1897), by Schenectady Locomotive Works (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive-engine driving. (London, 1892), by Michael Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
How oil is used for fuel on locomotives. Supplement to The science of railways (World Railway Pub. Co., 1903), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Supervision of locomotives. How effective service and economy of operation may be furthered. Supplement to The science of railways. (The World railway publishing company, 1904), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive boilers and engines : a practical treatise on locomotive boiler and engine design, construction, and operation (American School of Correspondence, 1913), by Ill.) American School (Lansing and Llewellyn V. Ludy (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotive up to date. (Griffin & Winters, 1900), by Chas. McShane (page images at HathiTrust)
Chemins de fer (P. Dupont, 1869), by Henri Le Chatelier (page images at HathiTrust)
Motorwagen und lokomotive; kritische darstellung des jetzigen standes der frage der motorwagen und der führung leichter züge durch motorwagen oder lokomotiven in technischer und wirtschaftlicher beziehung (A. Hölder, 1907), by Karl Spitzer and Viktor Krakauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive engine running and management : a treatise on locomotive engines, showing how to manage locomotives in running different kinds of trains with economy and dispatch ; giving plain descriptions of valve-gear, injections, brakes, and other locomotive attachments ; treating on the economical use of fuel and stream ; and presenting valuable directions about the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and their connections (John Wiley & Sons, 1892), by Angus Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
Les locomotives et le matériel de transport; examen des divers systèmes appliqués en Europe et en Amérique. (Dunod, 1867), by Ernest Taillard (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Locomotiven-Blasrohr. Experimentelle und theoretische Untersuchungen über die Zugerzeugung durch Dampfstrahlen und über die saugende Wirkung der Flüssigkeitsstrahlen überhaupt. (Meyer & Zeller, 1863), by Gustav Zeuner (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway mechanical engineering : a practical treatise by engineering experts / 1 (Gresham, 1922), by A. R. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rapport au Conseil d'administration du chemin de fer de Paris à Orleans ... (Imprimerie at Librairie Administratives de P. Dupont et Cie, 1839), by J. G. L. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
Description of the Porter-Allen steam engine as made by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Co., Philadelphia (s.n., 1883), by Charles T. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway machinery: a treatise on the mechanical engineering of railways: embracing the principles and construction of rolling and fixed plant; illustrated by a series of plates on a large scale, and by numerous engravings on wood. (Blackie and son, 1855), by D. K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
The balancing of engines : the balancing of locomotives. (n.pub., 1925), by D. Laugharne-Thornton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern locomotive operation. Instruction paper with examination questions. (Natl. Tech. Inst., 1922), by New York City National technical institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La machine locomotive : manuel pratique donnat la description des organes et du fonctionnement de la locomotive à l'usage des mécaniciens et des chauffeurs. (Béranger, 1904), by Edouard Sauvage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Compounding and superheating in Horwich locomotives. (Inst. Mech. Eng., 1910), by George Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern cars and locomotives, 1926. ([Philadelphia?, 1926), by Pennsylvania Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
Jim Skeevers' object lessons on railroading for railroaders (Press of railway and locomotive engineering, 1899), by John Alexander Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Report to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, on the comparative merits of locomotive and fixed engines, as a moving power (Carey & Lea, 1831), by James Walker, Henry Booth, Joseph Locke, and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive boilers and engines; a practical treatise on locomotive boiler and engine design, construction, and operation (American Technical society, 1920), by Llewellyn V. Ludy and American Technical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Crampton-Lokomotive, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Bauarten. (Druck und Kommissions-Verlag der pfälzischen Verlagsanstalt, 1909), by F Gaiser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Einführung in die berechnung und konsruktion von dampflokomotiven : ein nachschlagewerk für die in der praxis stehende und angehende ingenieure sowie für studierrende des maschinenbaufaches (C.W. Kreidel, 1911), by Wilhelm Bauer and Xaver Stürzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La locomotive moderne (Veubert, 1911), by J. Tribot-Laspière (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Canadian new first, second & third year examinations for engineers & firemen ... (Prior, 1912), by Frederick John Prior (page images at HathiTrust)
The Locomotive : its working described and illustrated (Cropley Phillips, 1917), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Report upon the use of anthracite coal in locomotive engines on the Reading rail road, made to the president of the Philadelphia and Reading rail road company (Printed by J.D. Toy, 1849), by George William Whistler and Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
The four-cylinder balanced compound locomotive. Supplement to The science of railways [v. 12] (The World Railway Publishing Company, 1904), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive appliances ... forming one of the series of volumes comprised in the Revised and enlarged edition of "Kirkman's Science of Railways" ... (Cropley Phillips Company, 1916), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Der lokomotivrahmen als starrer Balken auf federnden stützen. Ein beitrage zur bestimmung der lastverteilung von lokomotiven. (Buchdruckerei A.W. Schade, 1904), by Wilhelm Lindemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
C & NW Locomotive (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
C & NW Locomotive (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1940) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
C & NW Locomotive (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
C & NW Locomotive (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1940) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Annual Excursion Operatives, Hubbard Milling Company, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society, 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001, http://www.bechshistory.com/, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Bradley's Crossing, April 18, 1875, St. Paul and Sioux R. R. (Blue Earth County Historical Society, 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001, http://www.bechshistory.com/, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Engine 143 (Blue Earth County Historical Society, 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001, http://www.bechshistory.com/, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Pacific Railroad Engine Number 2626, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1935) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railroad Engine Number 393, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1948) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive Number 3 in front of the General Offices of Northern Pacific Railroad, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Pacific Railroad Steam Engine Number 253 (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Pacific Railroad Engine Number 1054 and engineer (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Decorated Locomotive at Northern Pacific Railroad Shops, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
First Train in Brainerd After Snowstorm (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
First train into Brainerd after snowstorm (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railroad Steam Locomotives Numbers 227 and 228, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Pacific Locomotive No. 227, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Pacific Railroad passenger train, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Locomotive "C. N. Parker, Jr." (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive Engine Number 1, Worthington (Nobles County Historical Society, 407 12th St, Suite 2, Worthington, MN 56187, 1900), by Edward F. Buchan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jim Skeevers' object lessons on railroading for railroaders (American machinist press, 1899), by John Alexander Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Mallet locomotives; supplement to The science of railways (Cropley Phillips Company, 1914), by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
A rudimentary treatise on the locomotive engine in all its phases : popularly described, with illustrations for students and nonprofessional men (Virtue Brothers, 1866), by G. Drysdale Dempsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Museum of science and art (Walton and Maberly, 1856), by Dionysius Lardner (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive breakdowns : emergencies and their remedies. (Henley, 1911), by George Little Fowler and W. W. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbuch des eisenbahnmaschinenwesens. (J. Springer, 1908), by Ludwig Stockert, Gottfried Bode, and Julius Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical railroading; a new, complete and practical treatise on steam, electric and motor car operation ... written expressly for the master mechanic, traveling engineer, locomotive engineer and fireman (Stanley institute, 1909), by Oscar Centennial Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
Eisenbahnfahrzeuge (G.J. Göschen, 1910), by Hans Hinnenthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A manual of locomotive engineering, with an historical indtroduction ([s.n.], 1899), by William Frank Pettigrew and A. F. Ravenshear (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The world's locomotives; a digest of the latest locomotive practice in the railway countries of the world. (Percival Marshall & co., 1905), by Charles Sidney Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
Mémoire sur les locomotives à trés-grande vitesse (Auguste Lemoine, 1878), by Emilien Desmousseaux de Givré, Rabeuf, and Alexandre Louis Deghilage (page images at HathiTrust)
Les locomotives à l'exposition de 1900 (Vve C. Dunod, 1902), by F. Barbier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern locomotives; illustrations : specifications and details of typical American and European steam and electric locomotives. (Railroad gazette, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Questionnaire sur la construction et la conduite des locomotives à vapeur ... (Bordeaux, 1916), by Compagnie des chemins de fer du midi and Albert Herdner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Second report of the Locomotive committee on standard locomotives for Indian railways. (Pub. for the Committee by C. Lockwood & son, 1907), by British Standards Institution and Leslie S. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
British standard specifications for material used in the construction of railway rolling stock. (Pub. for the Committee by C. Lockwood & son., 1907), by British Standards Institution and Douglas Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive appliances. (The World railway publishing company, 1901), by Marshall M. Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Untersuchungen über diie Bewegung von Lokomotiven mit Drehgestellen in Bahnkrümmungen ... (C.W. Kreidel's Verlag, 1903), by Heinrich Uebelacker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive shop notes. (Locomotive Pub. Co. ;, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive machine friction (1916), by Phares Lemar White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A manual of locomotive engineering ... (C. Griffin, 1901), by William Frank Pettigrew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les locomotives à l'exposition de Liége (1905). (Paris, 1906), by Albert Herdner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The locomotive of to-day. (London, 1908), by London Locomotive Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Code for testing air operated auxiliary devices on locomotives. (Air Brake Assoc, 1920), by Air Brake Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Hydraulique appliquée : nouveau système de locomotion sur les chemins de fer / par L.D. Girard. (Bachelier, 1852), by L. D. Girard (page images at HathiTrust)
La construction d'une locomotive moderne (Paris, 1907), by Robert Grimshaw and P. Poinsignon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The imperial cyclopedia of machinery, being a series of plans, sections and elevations of stationary, marine and locomotive engines, spinning machinery, grinding mills, tools &c... From the great exhibition, with descriptive letterpress, an essay on the steam engine, and a history of the railways of Great Britain (William Mackenzie, 1852), by William Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
La locomotive : description raisonnée de ses organes à l'usage des ouvriers. (Bruxelles, 1913), by U. Lamalle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La locomotive : Description raisonnée de ses organes à l'usage des ouvriers. (Bruxelles, 1920), by U. Lamalle and F. Legein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Locomotive of to-day. (London, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Locomotive der Gegenwart und die principien ihrer construction. An den Objecten der Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 in allgemein fasslicher Darstellung erläutert und entwickelt (Braunschweig, 1875), by Alphons Petzholdt and Vienna International Exhibition (1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité du mouvement de translation des locomotives et recherches sur le frottement de roulement (Paris, 1844), by Kit Le Fever (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the alleged defectiveness & unsuitability of the Baldwin locomotives ... (C. Potter, govt. printer, 1892), by New South Wales. Baldwin Locomotives Inquiry Commission and Francis Edward Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company : tables of ton-miles and coal computations. (Faithorn Co., 1912), by William Morgan Harvey and Milwaukee Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
Le mécanicien de chemins de fer (Paris, 1883), by Ignaz Brosius, Emile With, and Richard Koch (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway machinery. (Blackie & Son, 1855), by D. K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Specification of a locomotive engine of 4 ft 8 1/2 gauge, with cylinders 17 x 24 inches (s.n., 1800), by Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
Traction increasers in connection with over-cylindered engines (s.n., 1887), by American Railway Master Mechanics' Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Competition of steam vs. electric parallels (s.n., 1902), by C. H. Davis and Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
Graphodynamische Untersuchung einer Heusinger-Joy-Steuerung : ein Beitrag ... (R. Dietze, 1906), by Eduard Dafinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Steam and the locomotive engine (Putnam, 1873), by Henry Evers (page images at HathiTrust)
Forty years a locomotive engineer; thrilling tales of the rail (C.H. O'Neil, 1912), by J. Harvey Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive operation : a technical and practical analysis (The Wilson Co., 1907), by G. R. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Nuovo sistema privilegiato A. Cottrau di locomotive con ruote a doppio cerchione (ossia, a quattro ruote motrici su cadaun asse motore) Sistème [!] breveté A. Cottrau de locomotives avec roues à double bandage ... New patented system A. Cottrau of locomotives with wheels with two tires ... (R. Marghieri, 1882), by Alfredo Cottrau (page images at HathiTrust)
La machine locomotive. Manuel pratique donnant la description des organes et du fonctionnement de la locomotive à l'usage des mécaniciens et des chauffeurs. (Baudry & Cie, 1894), by Éd. Sauvage (page images at HathiTrust)
Light locomotives. (Matthews, Northrup, 1890), by H.K. Porter & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
American and European railway practice in the economical generation of steam : including the materials and construction of coal-burning boilers, combustion, the variable blast, vaporization, circulation, superheating, supplying and heating feed-water, etc. : and the adaptation of wood and coke-burning engines to coal-burning : and in permanent way including road-bed, sleepers, rails, joint fastenings, street railways, etc., etc. (D. Van Nostrand ;, 1861), by Alexander Lyman Holley, Charles H. Kilgour, and Julius Bien (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive appliances. (Cropley Phillips company, 1917), by Marshall M. Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotives of 1906 (P. Marshall, 1907), by Charles S. Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
Catechism of the locomotive (The Railroad gazette, 1877), by Matthias N. Forney (page images at HathiTrust)
To the land o' Burns and the Glasgow & South Western Railway (Columbus Printing, Publishing & Advertising Co., 1899), by Lesser Columbus and Glasgow & South Western Railway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Power : the story of the locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad, 1928), by Katherine Woods and Pennsylvania Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive mechanism and engineering (J. Wiley & Sons, 1898), by Harry Clifton Reagan (page images at HathiTrust)
One hundred years of the locomotive, 1815-1915 : a book of old prints and unusual photographs gotten together with especial reference to the development of the locomotive in America and issued by the Erie Railroad Company. ([New York] : Erie Railway, [1915], 1915), by Erie Railway (page images at HathiTrust)
Résultats obtenus à la Compagnie de l'Est, jusqu'au 1er octobre 1902, par l'emploi de tiroirs cylindriques sur les locomotives compound à quatre cylindres ([publisher not identified], 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Combustão economica nas locomotivas : subsidio para o estudo do cavão Brazileiro (Rio de Janeiro : Typ. do Jornal do Commercio, de Rodrigues & C., 1917., 1917), by A. Paranhos Fontelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Firing locomotives : a practical treatise on combustion and steam making with catechism based on the numbered paragraphs (A. Sinclair Co., 1910), by Angus Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
Description of the patent locomotive steam engine of Messrs. Robert Stephenson and Co., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (John Weale, 1838), by W. P. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
Théorie de la coulisse servant à produire la détente variable dans les machines à vapeur, et particulièrement dans les machines locomotives (Paris : Mallet-Bachelier, 1863., 1863), by Edouard Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotive exhibits at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. (New York, 1901), by Storm Bull and Paris (France). Exposition universelle (1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern locomotive manual : questions and answers ; whys and wherefores (National Tech. Institute, 1924), by New York City National technical institute (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotives à vapeur (Librairie O. Doin, 1921), by Joseph Nadal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Porter steam locomotives light and heavy. (H.K. Porter Co., in the 1910s), by H.K. Porter & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Catechism of the locomotive. (The Railroad gazette, 1891), by Matthias N. Forney (page images at HathiTrust)
Rapport à Son Exc. le ministre de l'agriculture, du commerce et des travaux publics sur emploi de la houille dans les machines locomotives et sur les machines à foyer fumivore du système Tenbrinck. (Dunod, 1862), by Charles Couche (page images at HathiTrust)
Relative advantages of modern steam and electric locomotives (Railway and Industrial Engineers, Incorporated, 1920), by John Erhardt Muhlfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
Theorie des mouvements oscillatoires des locomotives et des voitures ... (Paris, 1878), by Émilien Desmousseaux De Givré (page images at HathiTrust)
The locomotives of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 1903-1923. (Locomotive Pub. Co., 1928), by J. N. Maskelyne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Suppression des appareils de démarrage dans une locomotive compound de l'état autrichien. ([Paris, 1893), by A. Lavezzari (page images at HathiTrust)
Tramways à vapeur : Locomotive sans foyer : Système E. Lamm et Léon Francq : Pour la traction sur chemins de fer vicinaux et tramsways ... (Paris, 1878), by Compagnie continentale d'exploitation des locomotives sans foyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Tramways & chemins de fer sur routes; recueil de renseignements sur les avantages de la traction par la locomotive sans foyer (Paris, 1878), by Paris (France). Compagnie continentale d'exploitation des locomotives sans foyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Untersuchung und Berechnung der Blasrohre und Schornsteine von Lokomotiven (Wiesbaden : Kreidel, 1912., 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[Locomotives and railroad equipment. : Pamphlet box.] (1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Report to the directors on the comparative merits of loco-motive & fixed engines, as a moving power. (Published by John and Arthur Arch, 1829), by James Walker, Henry Booth, Joseph Locke, Robert Stephenson, and Liverpool and Manchester Railway (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway locomotive management : in a series of letters (Printed for the author, and sold by H. Winnall, 1847), by Veritas vincit (page images at HathiTrust)
Nathan Read: his invention of the multi-tubular boiler and portable high-pressure engine (Hurd and Houghton, 1870), by David Read (page images at HathiTrust)
The Climax patent geared locomotives : catalogue "L" ([Starrucca Valley Publications], 1963), by Climax Manufacturing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive running shed notes. (London, 1921), by Locomotive Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Les locomotives articulées (Imprimerie F. Van Buggenhoudt, 1926), by Lionel Wiener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die lokomotive ... (C. Pataky, 1924), by Johann Wilhelm van Heys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
"Caerphilly castle" : a book of railway locomotives for boys of all ages (Great Western Railway, 1924), by Walter George Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Locomotive super-heating and feed water heating : supplement to the locomotive, railway carriage & wagon review. (London, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railway machinery: a treatise on the mechanical engineering of railways: embracing the principles and construction of rolling and fixed plant; illustrated by a series of plates on a large scale, and by numerous engravings on wood. (Blackie and Son, 1855), by D. K. Clark and J.P. Morgan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive et matériel roulant (Dunod, 1924), by Maurice Demoulin and R. Vigerie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Famous engineers of the nineteenth century (W. Scott, 1885), by J. F. Layson (page images at HathiTrust)
"The flying Scotsman;" the world's most famous express. (London, 1925), by London and North Eastern Railway (page images at HathiTrust)
A textbook on the locomotive and the air brake (Internat. Textbook Co., 1901), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer, by Henry Dawson, contrib. by Dulce Glober (Gutenberg ebook)
The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851: United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964, by John H. White (Gutenberg ebook)
Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24, by John H. White (Gutenberg ebook)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910: Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172, by B. S. Randolph (Gutenberg ebook)

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