During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the U.S. Railroad Administration. One of the USRA’s first acts was to rationalize the railroad supply industry by standardizing rolling stock designs, including twelve locomotive types, at a time when customized designs were taken for granted. Uncle Sam’s Locomotives looks at these magnificent locomotives and discusses how and why the designs were chosen, how they related to existing designs, what standardizing entailed, and how each performed.
Huddleston deals masterfully with the complex and often controversial relations between the U.S. Railroad Administration, the railroad companies, the major locomotive builders, and the numerous smaller companies that supplied locomotive accessories. Featured is a Picture Gallery of USRA Locomotives—light and heavy Mikados, Pacifics, Mountains, Switchers, Santa Fes, and Mallets.

Uncle Sam's Locomotives: The USRA and the Nation's Railroads (Railroads Past and Present)

History

Huddleston, Eugene L.

Americas

Indiana University Press

Thomas Jefferson, a reference guide (Reference guide to literature)

Reference

G.K. Hall

The world's greatest mallets: C & O H-8 versus N & W class A

Published by the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society

Riding that New River Train

Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society

History of the Chesapeake &amp; Ohio's coal field operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio from the steam era through the C&amp;O/B&amp;O merger years and then into the CSX era. In covering the six main coal fields, sites of heavy duty railroading and glorious Appalachian scenery, from the end of the steam power in 1956 to the powerful diesels of 1996, the book presents in full color photos of several different types of steam locomotives and over 25 distinctive diesel models, as well as illustrations of ancillary operations such as the rail-to-river transfer facilities on the Ohio River at Huntington and the Winifrede Railroad on the Kanawha. 120 pages.

Chesapeake & Ohio, Coal and Color

Chesapeake & Ohio Historical S

This book fuels the world-wide interest in American locomotives of the late-steam era, when strong performance, high horsepower, and functional beauty were givens. Among roads wealthy enough to afford such engines, Chesapeake &amp; Ohio was in the forefront with its 'Super Power,' and this new book systematically sets forth the development, use, maintenance, and performance of these 'custom made' designs from the introduction in 1930 of the C&amp;O T-1, then the world's most powerful two-cylinder locomotive, through the 'Kanawhas' and 'Greenbriers' of the 1940s, to the L-2 class of 1942 and 1948, the worlds heaviest Hudsons, to the last fifteen of the Allegheny type, which had established the highest drawbar horsepower record of any steam locomotive in the world. The fascinating story of C&amp;O Super Power involves not only the road's own Mechanical Department in Richmond, Virginia, but its close association with Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima, Ohio, and its even closer kinship with the authoritative Advisory Mechanical Committee of Cleveland, Ohio. In giving the reader a fresh and penetrating examination of C&amp;O Super Power, this book brings together over 175 photos, plus reproductions of C&amp;O's own locomotive diagrams and an ICC inspection report for Allegheny no. 1604, preserved today in Baltimore. The photos were carefully selected for quality, relevance to the text, and originality. These action and still photos hopefully will offer images seldom if ever seen before that the viewer will greet with surprise and delight.

Chesapeake & Ohio Super Power Steam Locomotives

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Chesapeake & Ohio Hist. Soc.

Story about the locomotives built through the Appalachian Mountains and helping people navigate through the passages that the Native Americans once dominated.

Appalachian Crossing: The Pocahontas Roads

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

T L C Pub

Detailed comparison of the three greatest articulated steam locomotives ever: the Chesapeake &amp; Ohio 2-6-6-6, the Norfolk &amp; Western 2-6-6-4 and the Union Pacific 4-8-8-4.

World's Greatest Steam Locomotives: C&O 2-6-6-6, Virginian 2-6-6-6, N&W 2-6-6-4, Up 4-8-8-4

Automotive

Tlc Pub Inc

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