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• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1923. (Printed by Bingham, 1923), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation and Standard Steel Works Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Baldwin locomotive works, 1832[!]-1913 ... ([Philadelphia, 1913), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Baldwin locomotive works, 1831 to 1902. (The Edgell company, 1903), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flying horse, the story of the locomotive and the railway. (Griffith, Farran, Browne, 1893), by Henry Frith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rails over the horizon. (Stackpole sons, 1938), by Charles K. Landis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer. (Follett, Foster and Company, 1859), by Samuel Smiles and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entwicklung der Dampfmachine : Eine Geschichte der Ortsfesten Dampfmaschine und der Lokomobile, der Schiffsmaschine und Lokomotive (J. Springer, 1908), by Conrad Matschoss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early motive power of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad (Angus Sinclair co., 1912), by J. Snowden Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Development of the locomotive. (The Central steel company, 1925), by Massillon Central steel company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century of Southern Pacific steam locomotives, 1862-1962. ([Modesto, Calif., 1963), by Guy L. Dunscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine, and Philadelphia's share in its early improvements (G. Gebbie, 1872), by Joseph Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holmes Hinkley, an industrial pioneer, 1793-1866 (Printed at the Riverside press, 1913), by Walter S. Hinchman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the locomotive (Longmans, Green and co., 1924), by G. Gibbard Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 100 years of steam locomotives. (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp., 1957), by Walter Arndt Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pocket guide to American locomotives. (Simons-Boardman Pub. Corp., 1953), by Walter Arndt Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution of power on the Burlington (Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Kalmbach Publishing Company, [1963], 1963), by David Page Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the locomotive engine (A. Sinclair publishing company, 1907), by Angus Sinclair (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)
• Apex of the Atlantics (Milwaukee : Kalmbach Pub. Co., [1963], 1963), by Fred Westing (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the nature, properties, and applications of steam, and on steam navigation. (A. and C. Black, 1841), by J. Scott Russell and Peter LeCount (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railways for all (Ward, Lock & co., ltd., 1924), by John Francis Gairns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great engineers. George Stephenson, Robert Stephenson, Richard Trevithick, William Hedley, Timothy Hackworth, Isambard Brunel, Sir Wm. Fairbairn, Lord Armstrong, Gustave Eiffel, Sir William Arrol. (W. Scott, 1890), by J. F. Layson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The railroad era. First five years of its development. (New York, 1884), by Horatio Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the first locomotives in America, together with other valuable and interesting information from original documents and testimony of living witnesses. (Barclay & co., 1877), by William H. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• British locomotives, their history, construction, and modern development (Whittaker and co., 1893), by Charles John Bowen Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotives of the North eastern railway. 1841-1922 ... (The locomotive publishing co., ltd., 1922), by John S writer on railways Maclean (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evolution of the steam locomotive (1803 to 1898) (The Railway Publishing Co., 1899), by George Augustus Nokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locomotives in our lives; railroad experiences of three brothers for more than sixty years, 1890-1951. (Hastings House, 1954), by Albert Sheldon Pennoyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine and its development, a popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between the years 1803 and 1892 (C. Lockwood and son, 1892), by Clement E. Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine and its development ; a popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between 1803 and 1893 (C. Lockwood and son, 1893), by Clement E. Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine and its development, a popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between 1803 and 1894 (C. Lockwood and son, 1895), by Clement E. Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The 17" (Washburn, 1929), by Edwin Chapin Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Hedley : the inventor of railway locomotion on the present principle. (J.M. Carr, 1882), by M. Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Det tusende lokomotivet. Nydqvist & Holm, Trollhättan [1847-1912] Minnesskrift. (W. Zachrissons boktr., 1912), by Sigurd Hansson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History and development of steam locomotion on common roads (E. & F. N. Spon, 1891), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Timothy Hackworth and the locomotive (Locomotive publishing co., ltd.;, 1923), by Robert Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le petit poucet du XIXe siècle: Georges Stephenson et la naissance des chemins de fer. (Librairie Hachette et cie., 1895), by Frédéric Passy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer. (J. Murray, 1858), by Samuel Smiles and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson and of his son Robert Stephenson : comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the railway locomotive (Harper & brothers, 1868), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie des Stephenson, comprenant l'histoire des chemins de fer et de la locomotive (E. Plon, 1875), by Samuel Smiles and F Landolphe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition et histoire des principales découvertes scientifiques modernes ... (V. Masson [etc.], 1855), by Louis Figuier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who invented the locomotive engine? With a review of Smiles's Life of Stephenson. (Ward and Lock, 1858), by Oswald Dodd Hedley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of the collections illustrating land transport. III. Railway locomotives and rolling stock (H.M. Stationery off., 1931), by Science Museum (Great Britain) and Ernest Alfred Forward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locomotives of the Western Pacific (Acme Print. Co., 1954), by Fred A. Stindt and Guy L. Dunscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of locomotives and detail parts (Burhham, Williams & Co., 1908), by Baldwin Locomotive Works (page images at HathiTrust)
• British locomotives, their history, construction, and modern development (Whittaker, 1894), by C. J. Bowen Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locomotives of the Southern Pacific company (The Railway and locomotive historical society, Baker library, Harvard business school, 1941), by Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and Gerald M. Best (page images at HathiTrust)
• British locomotives: their evolution and development (S. Low, Marston & Co., ltd., 1929), by George Gibbard Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The locomotive engine and its development : a popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between 1803 and 1903 (Crosby Lockwood, 1903), by Clement Edwin Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• George and Robert Stephenson (Cassell, 1885), by Clara L. Matéaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georg Stephenson geschildert in seinem leben und wirken als mensch und erfinder. Nebst einer geschichte der eisenbahnen, der locomotive und der sicherheitslampe. (Franckh'sche verlagshandlung, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La locomotora, su evolución, cálculo, funcionamiento y construcción (Editorial Apolo, 1923), by Leonardo Hereter Ferrán and Mario Miquel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of the collections illustrating land transport (Published by H.M.S.O., 1931), by Science Museum (Great Britain) and Ernest Alfred Forward (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1920. (Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1920), by Baldwin Locomotive Works (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century of locomotive building by Warren Stephenson & co. : 1823-1923 (A. Reid & co., lim., 1923), by James G.H. Warren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Origine de la locomotive. (Paris, 1886), by Alexandre Louis Deghilage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson and of his son Robert Stephenson; comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the railway locomotive. (Harper & Brothers, 1868), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine and its development : a popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between 1803 and 1896 (C. Lockwood and Son, 1896), by Clement Edwin Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique des chemins de fer, traduit de l'ouvrage anglais (Chez Carilian-Goeury, 1834), by Nicholas Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railways for all (Ward, Lock & co., ltd, 1929), by John Francis Gairns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Locomotives of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. (The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc., 1936), by Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and Charles Eben Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the life of George Stephenson, railway engineer; abridged by the author from the original and larger work. (John Murray ..., 1863), by Samuel Smiles and John Murray (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer (Follett, Foster and Company, 1860), by Samuel Smiles, Robert Stephenson, and Charles H. Kilgour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the first locomotives in America : from the original documents, and the testimony of living witnesses (D. Appleton and Company, 1874), by William H. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of the steam locomotive (1803 to 1898) (The Railway Publishing Co, ltd., 1899), by George Augustus Nokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la machine à vapeur (F. Alcan, 1888), by Robert Henry Thurston and Joseph Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotives of the Great northern railway, 1847-1902 (The Locomotive publishing co. ltd, 1903), by George Frederick Bird (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 to 1907. (Philadelphia, 1920), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baldwin locomotive works. Illustrated catalogue of locomotives. (Press of J.B. Lippincott & co., 1871), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine and its development; a popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between 1803 and 1895 (C. Lockwood and Son, 1896), by Clement Edwin Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of the locomotive (s.n., in the 1880s), by T. T. Vernon Smith and Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer. (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883), by Samuel Smiles and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the locomotive engine; a history of the growth of the locomotive from its most elementary form, showing the gradual steps made toward the developed engine, with biographical sketches of the eminent engineers and inventors who nursed it on its way to the perfected form of to-day. Many particulars are also given concerning railroad development. (A. Sinclair publishing company, 1907), by Angus Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The locomotive engine, and Philadelphia's share in its early improvements. (G. Gebbie, 1872), by Joseph Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer. (Pioneer Press, 1889), by Samuel Smiles and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cornish giant : Richard Trevithick, the father of the locomotive-engine (E. & F.N. Spon ;, 1913), by Edith Katherine Harper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Locomotive and locomotive building, being a brief sketch of various improvements in locomotive building during the last century, together with a history of the origin and growth of the Rogers locomotive and machine works ... from 1831 to 1876 ... [and catalog]. (J. W. Pratt, 1876), by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works and William S. Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Baldwin locomotive works, 1831-1920 ... (Philadelphia, 1921), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first railway in London. Being the story of the London and Greenwich Railway from 1832 to 1878. (Locomotive Pub. Co., Ltd., 1913), by Alfred Rosling Bennett (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)
• George Stephenson, der Vater der Locomotiv-Eisenbahn : historische Studien zur Säcularfeier seiner Geburt (Wien : Druck und Verlag von L.C. Zamarski, k.k. Hof-Buchdruckerei und Hof-Lithographie, 1881., 1881), by Karl Engelhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Big Boy (Barnhart Press, 1963), by William W. Kratville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Catalogue of the material on exhibition [at the] Baker Library, Harvard Business School. (Boston, 1935), by Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Steam in the Rockies; a steam locomotive roster of the Denver Rio Grande. (Golden, Colo., 1963), by Colorado Railroad Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early days of canals, railways and locomotives : an address delivered on the occasion of the centenary celebration of the Delaware and Hudson Company at the Hotel Casey, Scranton, Pa., on April 24, 1923 (Publisher not identified, 1923), by H. W. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer (Ticknor and Fields, 1858), by Samuel Smiles and Robert Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831 to 1907. (Edgell Company, 1907), by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Differential diagnosis (W. B. Saunders company, 1915), by Richard C. Cabot (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The evolution of the steam locomotive (1803 to 1898), by George Augustus Nokes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America: Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas with a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U. S. National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin 210, by Smith Hempstone Oliver (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Merveilles de la Locomotion (in French), by E. Deharme, illust. by B. Bonnafoux, A. Jahandier, and Adrien-Emmanuel Marie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rocket, or, the story of the Stephensons, father and son (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1873), by Helen C. Knight (page images at Florida)

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