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• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
• Christening of D. & H. locomotive "1400," the Horatio Allen ([publisher not identified], 1924), by Leonor Fresnel Loree and Delaware and Hudson Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milestones in the Mighty Age of Steam: The Grasshopper and the Corliss (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Heat engines, embracing the theory, construction, and performance of steam boilers, reciprocating steam engines, steam turbines and internal combustion engines; a text-book for engineering students (Longmans, Green and Co., 1920), by David Allan Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gleichstrom-Dampfmaschine. (R. Oldenbourg, 1911), by Johannes Stumpf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the locomotive and the air brake (The Colliery engineer co., 1900), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christening of D. & H. locomotive "1400," the Horatio Allen ([publisher not identified], 1924), by Leonor Fresnel Loree and Delaware and Hudson Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The feasibility of electrical equipment on steam railroads (1906), by Roy Edward Jens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Methods of coaling locomotives (1902), by Lawrence Gilbert Parker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A study of the characteristics and the performance of different types of steam locomotives : by means of speed-time and speed-distance curves (1909), by Teruo Kishi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• An analysis of the performance of typical steam locomotives (1913), by Harold Allen Houston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American and European railway practice in the economical generation of steam ... and in permanent way ... (D. Van Nostrand;, 1867), by Alexander Lyman Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adjustment of engine valves and governors. (Technical Pub. Co., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Smoke-box superheater : feed water heater. (Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1909), by Baldwin Locomotive Works (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of a subcommittee of the Committee on standards on the flexible fire box and tube plate construction proposed by the William H. Wood Locomotive Fire Box and Tube Plate Company. Approved by the Committee on standards at Washington, December 3, 1918 ... (Govt. print. off., 1919), by United States. Railroad administration. Division of operation. Mechanical dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanism of combustion (American Arch Co., 1918), by J. T. Anthony and American Arch Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Special investigation report : steam locomotive firebox explosion on the Gettysburg railroad near Gardners, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1995 (National Transportation Safety Board ;, 1996), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Overfire jets and controls for locomotive smoke abatement. (Pittsburgh, 1947), by Eugene D. Benton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das kupferschweissverfahren insbesondere bei lokomotiv-feuerbüchsen : eine anleitung. (Berlin, 1923), by Adolf Bothe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Firebox design and its relation to boiler performance (1917), by Charles M. Clark and James Herron Westbay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Firebox design and its relation to boiler performance (1917), by Charles M. Clark and James Herron Westbay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Christening of D. & H. locomotive "1400," the Horatio Allen ([publisher not identified], 1924), by Leonor Fresnel Loree and Delaware and Hudson Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fireless Locomotive (Gutenberg ebook)

• Observations on the comparative merits of locomotive and fixed engines, as applied to railways (Printed for Wales and Baines, 1830), by Robert Stephenson, Charles Ellet, James Walker, and Joseph Locke (page images at HathiTrust)

• The steam fan trip across the midwest (HAE, 1962), by Harold A. Edmonson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bulletin ... ([Altoona, Pa.], 1905), by Pennsylvania Railroad Compnay. Test Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• A code for conducting steam locomotive tests (1914), by Henry Helm French and James Aiken Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Steam railroad in Yellowstone National Park : August, 7 1894 ... : Mr. Hare, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following adverse report. (G.P.O., 1894), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exit, the Sixth Avenue Elevated Line (New York], 1940), by Walter Arndt Lucas, Paul T. Warner, and William Fullerton Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• American compound locomotives (The Derry-Collard company;, 1903), by Fred H. Colvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locomotive compounding and superheating. A practical text-book for the use of railway and locomotive engineers, students, and draughtsmen (C. Griffin & company, limited;, 1907), by John Francis Gairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compound locomotives (R. M. Van Arsdale, 1891), by Arthur Tannatt Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compound locomotives (The Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader, 1893), by Arthur T. Woods, ed. by David Leonard Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• La locomotive compound. : Avec une planche coloriée à feuillets découpés et superposés ... (Schleicher frères & cie, 1904), by Adolphe Schoeller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern compound locomotives; a practical treatise on the design, operation and maintenance of Vauclain, Schenectady, Richmond and Rhode Island builds. (Press of the F.W. Gardiner Company, 1902), by Jos Bourke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of committee on compound locomotives (s.n., 1890), by American Railway Master Mechanics' Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le chemin de fer de Lyon et la compagnie du chemin de fer d'Orléans : considerations nouvelles (Chez Bureau, imprimeur-libraire, rue Coquilliere, 22, 1845), by M. A. Pommier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad ABC picture book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1899) (page images at Florida)

• Locomotive advertising in America, 1850-1900. (Americana Review, 1960) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La locomotive actuelle : étude générale sur les types récents de locomotives a grande puissance ... (C. Béranger, 1906), by Maurice Demoulin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• H.K. Porter Company, builders of light locomotives, steam and compressed air ... (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1908), by H.K. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dimensions and classifications of locomotives of the New York Central & Hudson River, Boston & Albany, Rutland, and New York & Ottawa Railroads. ([New York?], 1905), by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, New York and Ottawa Railroad Company, Rutland Railroad Company, and Boston and Albany Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dimensions and classification of locomotives of the New York central and Hudson river railroad ([New York], 1902), by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and Arthur Manning Waitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constructive features of the American locomotive (1906), by Victor Emmanuel Hulteen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les chemins de fer américains; matériel et traction. (H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1907), by Marcel Japiot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modern compressed air locomotives, a descriptive catalogue of two-stage compressed air locomotives and the necessary auxiliary apparatus for successful operation and maintenance. (H. K. Porter Company, 1914), by H.K. Porter Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Porter steam locomotives light and heavy. (H.K. Porter Co., in the 1910s), by H.K. Porter & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial of Matthias W. Baldwin. (Collins, 1867), by Wolcott Calkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Investigation of the Causes of the Explosion of the Locomotive Engine, "Richmond", Near Reading, Pa., on the 2d Sept. 1844 (New York: Herald Book and Job Printing Office, 1844), by Dionysius Lardner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Railroad/highway grade-crossing safety and S. 2644, the Increased Railroad Locomotive Visibility Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, July 30, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

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