Catálogo de libros: Trenes y ferrocarriles

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  • The Duties of the Steam Train Driver
    Jas. T. Hodgson / JasTHodgson
    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. ...
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    19,22 €

  • The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley 1911- 1921
    O. S. Nock / OSNock
    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. ...
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    22,74 €

  • Building Your own Toy Steam Engine - A Guide to Constructing Your own Model Steam Engine and Single Acting Toy Engine
    Anon
    This vintage book is a detailed guide to constructing a model steam engine and single-acting toy engine. The detailed and comprehensive manual is recommended for the serious model enthusiast with an interest in miniature engineering, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector of vintage engineering literature. Contents include: 'How to Make a Steam Engine', 'Watt’s Eng...
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    37,33 €

  • A Little Book of Model Trains - Dealing with the Construction of Trains, Stations, and Accessories
    Various / Various Authors
    This vintage book is a complete guide to model trains, dealing with the construction of trains, stations, and accessories. Detailed diagrams and comprehensive instructions, this handbook will be of considerable utility to the modern train enthusiast and would make for a useful addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: 'A Model of the North Star', 'Locomoti...
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    22,78 €

  • Trains, Literature, and Culture
    This volume delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods ...
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    142,86 €

  • Engines of War - An Illustrated Booklet of the Locomotives and Freight Cars of the British Ministry of Supply and of the U.S. Army Transportaton Corps
    Guy N. Wildish / Guy NWildish
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    17,97 €

  • The Moffat Line
    John A. Sells
    By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the railroad was king. Railroad lines crisscrossed the North American continent, allowing for the long-distance transportation of oil, coal, lumbar, gold, and other valuables. Despite high operating costs and fierce competition, the search for better and more profitable routes was constant. David Moffat, a banker and railroad execut...
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    16,33 €

  • The Moffat Line
    John A. Sells
    By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the railroad was king. Railroad lines crisscrossed the North American continent, allowing for the long-distance transportation of oil, coal, lumbar, gold, and other valuables. Despite high operating costs and fierce competition, the search for better and more profitable routes was constant. David Moffat, a banker and railroad execut...
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    27,21 €

  • A Guide to Model Locomotives - A Collection of Vintage Articles on the Design and Construction of Model Trains and Railways
    Various
    This book is a collection of vintage articles on the design and construction model trains and railways, with information on using electricity to power signalling systems, engines, ramps, and much more. Profusely illustrated and full of invaluable tips, this volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in model engineering, and would make for a worthy addition to coll...
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    41,05 €

  • The Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company, 1833-1854
    James C. Burke
    In 1833, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to North Carolina’s capital. When it was done in 1840, after changing its route, the company had completed 161 miles of track--the longest railroad in the world at the time--and provided continuous transportation from the town of Weldon on the Roanoke River to Wilmington and on...
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    42,84 €

  • 'MAMA'
    Judith D. Christensen
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    25,06 €

  • Mama
    Judith D. Christensen
    ...
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    13,62 €

  • The Life and Times of a Duke
    Martyn J. McGinty
    This is the story of a quarter-century struggle to rebuild from scrap condition a unique locomotive, it being an essential part of the British engineering heritage.It covers the unusual and efficient Caprotti valve gear in depth and solves the mystery of why the locomotive did not work properly in service. It was never improved until it was restored and its secrets revealed wit...
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    15,71 €

  • The Life and Times of a Duke
    Martyn J. McGinty
    This is the story of a quarter-century struggle to rebuild from scrap condition a unique locomotive, it being an essential part of the British engineering heritage.It covers the unusual and efficient Caprotti valve gear in depth and solves the mystery of why the locomotive did not work properly in service. It was never improved until it was restored and its secrets revealed wit...
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    33,02 €

  • Great Railroad Tunnels of North America
    William Lowell Putnam
    Describing and detailing the boring of major railroad tunnels throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book covers the period from the creation of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Tunnel in the 1850s to Copper Canyon’s Continental and El Descanso tunnels in the early 1960s. Other notable tunnels featured here include Massachusetts’ notoriously expensive and slow-progressi...
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    43,83 €

  • Baldwin Diesel-Electric Switching Locomotives Operator’s Manual
    The Baldwin Locomotive Works
    For almost a century, The Baldwin Locomotive Works was the world’s premiere builder of steam locomotives. The years after WWII saw the company founder, as wartime production restrictions and poor planning delayed the company’s entry into the diesel market. Baldwin eventually did produce a number of diesel locomotives, including transfer and cab units and the four-axle 750 and 1...
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    12,72 €

  • British Railways 1948-73
    T. R. Gourvish / TRGourvish
    ...
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    70,36 €

  • Frank K. Hain and the Manhattan Railway Company
    Peter Murray Hain
    Organized under the Rapid Transit Act of 1875, the Manhattan Railway Company (commonly known as the Manhattan Elevated Railway, or the 'el') dominated public transportation in late 19th-century New York City. Its four lines extended the length of Manhattan Island into the Bronx, with 334 steam locomotives carrying 1,122 passenger cars over 102 miles of track. From 1880 to 19...
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    58,41 €

  • G.E.R Locomotives, 1900-1922 - A Brief Outline of Types Existing at the Close of 1922, Post-Grouping Additions and L.N.E.R Rebuilds, Together With a Short Description of the Famous ’Decapod’
    C. Langley Aldrich / CLangley Aldrich
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    19,42 €

  • The Track Of The Ironmasters - A History Of The Cleator And Workington Junction Railway
    W. McGowan Gradon / WMcGowan Gradon
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    36,45 €

  • The Track Of The Ironmasters - A History Of The Cleator And Workington Junction Railway
    W. McGowan Gradon / WMcGowan Gradon
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    34,70 €

  • Food Production and Distribution in the Confederacy, Excluding the Trans-Mississippi Department
    William Emons Cooper
    Who caused starvation and food riots in the Confederacy?/b>The Confederate Armies commandeering the Confederate railroads for military supplies and troops prevent food supplies from being distributed in the Confederacy. Thus leading to starvation and food riots by civilians in the Confederacy. ...
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    13,40 €

  • The Train Journey
    Simone Gigliotti
    Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question.' Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the 'Final Solution,' Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: 'How can railways be regarded...
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    24,92 €

  • The Niles Car and Manufacturing Company Interurban and Suburban Motorcars, Trolley Cars & Passenger Cars
    The Niles Car and Manufacturing Company
    Founded in 1901 in Niles, Ohio, the Niles Car and Manufacturing Co. produced a range of machinery for railroads and sugar mills. The company gained a reputation for making high quality passenger cars, trolley cars, and locomotives. Niles trolleys and interurbans ran in many cities including Rochester, Yakima, Minneapolis, Toledo,Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, San Diego, ...
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    10,65 €

  • Trolley Cars and Locomotives of the Mcguire-Cummings Manufacturing Company
    McGuire-Cummings Manufacturing Company
    Based in Paris, Illinois, the McGuire-CummingsManufacturing Co. built trolley cars, passenger coaches and electric locomotives from the 1890s until 1930. McGuire supplied rolling stock for many of the Midwest’s street railways and interurban lines, including the Peoria Railway, Ohio & Southern, the Illinois Central, Louisville & Eastern, Arkansas Valley, and others. Ori...
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    11,02 €

  • The C.S. Card Iron Works Co. Mine Haulage and Handling Equipment Catalog
    C.S. Card Iron Works Co. / C.SCard Iron Works Co.
    Founded in 1892 in Denver, the C.S. Card Iron Works became one of Colorado’s largest mining equipment suppliers. Originally published in 1940, this catalog showcases Card’s extensive line that included: mining car wheels and trucks, coal mine cars, ore cars, rope haulage equipment, rollers, sheaves, tipple equipment, dumps, cages, screens, track equipment, frogs, switches and c...
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    14,23 €

  • Interborough Rapid Transit
    Interborough Rapid Transit Company
    In 1903 the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company broke ground on an ambitious project, to create the City of Brotherly Love’s first high speed rail system. When it opened on March 4, 1907, the Market Street Subway-Elevated Line was greeted with acclaim. Running from the suburbs of West Philadelphia on elevated tracks, trains ducked underground to reach the city center. The line w...
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    16,85 €

  • How to Become a Successful Motorman
    Sidney Aylmer-Small
    In 1888, Frank J. Sprague built the first successful electric-powered trolley car system in Richmond, Virginia. A few years later he invented multiple-unit control, an innovation that allowed the creation of heavy electric elevated and subway systems. The motormen and conductors who operated these trains, trolleys and interurbans were often trained using Sidney Aylmer-Small’s H...
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    27,60 €

  • Electric Railway Dictionary
    Rodney Hitt
    If you are a fan of trolley cars, interurban streetcars and electric railroading, then The Electric Railway Dictionary is a book you need to have on your shelf! This historic text is far more than just a dictionary, although it does contain over sixty pages of definitions of terms. Most of this nearly 400-page book however, is devoted to cataloging various types of trolley cars...
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    35,46 €

  • Fairmont M19 Motor Car Series C
    Fairmont Railway Motors Inc.
    The Fairmont Motor Car owes its existence to a tired railway section hand named Fred Mahlman Sr. Exhausted by daily trips using a handcar, Mahlman decided there must be a better way. He contacted a local machine shop and inquired about buying a two h.p. motor, and attempted to rig it on his handcar. His initial attempt failed, but he didn’t give up on the concept. Eventuall...
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    9,27 €


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