Автор: Frank Rowsome
Название: Trolley Car Treasury
Издательство: Bonanza Books
Год: 1956
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 214
Язык: English
Размер: 37.4 MB

This handsome and colorful book presents a wealth of trolley tales, songs, photographs, and cartoons that recapture the happy screech, clang, and hiss of the trolley. Here are the first horsecars, and all the nostalgic lore which attended the purchase of streetcar horses. New York's Third Avenue Line, which kept 1700 horses in its stable, had a preference for grays on the theory that they were apt to mind the heat least. Mules were preferred on some lines, especially in the South, since they ate less, cost less, and minded the heat less.

Автор: Charles Dunbar
Название: Buses, Trolleys & Trams
Издательство: Paul Hamlyn
Год: 1967
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 144
Язык: English
Размер: 28.3 MB

Here is the colourful, fascinating story of road transport from the days of the stage and the long-distance mailcoach to the crowded age of the monorail, the expressway, and buses that go by themselves. 150 years ago there were two types of man - those who walked to work and those who didn't have to, those who traveled and those who stayed at home. Then, out of the years of the Industrial Revolution, came the horse buses and the steam cars, awesome contraptions which rolled along with the noise of twenty sledge hammers in full play, and which were to change our whole attitude to travel. More than 200 photographs and engravings collected from all over the world include rare and historical pictures. There are 24 pages of lively colour with pictures of buses, trams and streetcars.

Название: Тепловые двигатели
Автор: Вайсбейн М. К.
Издательство: Издание К. Л. Риккера
Год: 1910
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 391
Размер: 31,3 Мб
Язык: русский

Описаны самые распространенные в начале XX века двигатели - паровые машины, дизельные и бензиновые двигатели. Наиболее подробно рассмотрены конструкции паровых машин и физические процессы происходящие в них во время работы. Описываются общие принципы работы двигателей, расчет их параметров, правила эксплуатации. Конструкции парогенераторов при этом не рассматриваются.

Автор: L. W. Cowie
Название: The Railway Age
Издательство: Macdonald Educational
Год: 1978
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 70
Язык: English
Размер: 15.8 MB

Traces the origin and development of rail transportation in England, Europe, and the U.S., looks at unusual trains, and examines the political and economic impact of railroads.

Автор: Collective
Название: North Western Lines
Издательство: Chicago & North Western Historical Society
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Язык: English
Размер: 13.3 MB

North western lines - official publication of the Chicago & North Western Historical Society.

Автор: Colin Hynson
Название: The History of Railways
Издательство: Barron's
Год: 1998
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 36
Язык: English
Размер: 10.5 MB

Take a journey through time to discover the history of railways, from the pioneering days of steam to the high-speed electric trains of today … including the first steam railways, great train journeys, passenger comfort, freight and railway mail, traveling underground, trains of the future.

Автор: John Albert Droege
Название: Freight Terminals and Trains
Издательство: National Model Railroad Association
Год: 1998
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 604
Язык: English
Размер: 84.3 MB

A clear and comprehensive presentation based on experience, from the viewpoint of officers and constructional engineers.

Автор: Ray Spangenburg and Diane K. Moser
Название: The Story of America's Railroads
Издательство: Facts on File
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 104
Язык: English
Размер: 16 MB

Traces the history of railroads in America, focusing on the technology, people, and life on the railroads.

Автор: Charlton Ogburn
Название: Railroads: The Great American Adventure
Издательство: National Geographic Society
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 212
Язык: English
Размер: 25.4 MB

The story of American railroads is the story of the growth of a nation. Towns mushroomed, industries flourished, and the country boomed along the new routes of travel and commerce that linked cultural groups as well as geographic regions. "For most of our history, railroads have been a vital part of American life," writes Ogburn. "However different we may have been … we were all parishioners" of what became for a time the nation's most important industry. Relive a glorious age in Railroads: The Great American Adventure, from the first belching "tea-kettle-on-wheels" to the highly efficient diesel-electric locomotives of this century.

Автор: Mary Elting
Название: All Aboard! The Railroad Trains That Built America
Издательство: Four Winds Press
Год: 1969
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 134
Язык: English
Размер: 14.5 MB

In words and pictures, All Aboard! traces the history of America's trains all the way from the very first experimental engine to today's enormous diesels and the jet-powered trains of the future. There are chapters about the earliest trains and the problems that had to be solved to make them safe to ride . . . about the terrible dangers faced by the railroad builders as they blasted their way through mountains and built bridges across great rivers . . . about the famous transcontinental track-laying race between crews of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific, who drove themselves night and day until they finally met and hammered in the historic Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869.