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• Locomotives

• Steam locomotives -- History
• Steam locomotives -- United States

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

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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)

• 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)

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• Locomotive Engine Running and Management (17th edition, 1890), by Angus Sinclair (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)

• 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)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• The Locomotive (partial serial archives)
• The Locomotive Engineer (1888-1891) (full serial archives)
• Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• Railway and Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)

• Modern Locomotive Valves and Valve Gears (Chicago: Griffin and Winters, 1918), by Chas. McShane
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Dilworth Story: The Biography of Richard Dilworth, Pioneer Developer of the Diesel Locomotive (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1954), by Franklin M. Reck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Specifications for Electric Locomotives Proposed for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1905), by General Electric Company, contrib. by New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust