Illustrated Book Published by the Railroad Gazette, 1883
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Recent Locomotives. Illustrations, With Descriptions and Specifications and Details, of Recent American and European Locomotives, Reprinted from The Railroad Gazette
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Folio book of locomotives compiled from a dozen years of The Railroad Gazette periodicals. It includes illustrations and diagrams of locomotives produced by such manufacturers as Baldwin, Grant Locomotive Works, William Buchanan, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co., Mason Machine Works, the Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Brooks Locomotive Works, Hinkley Locomotive Works, Rogers Locomotive Works, Swiss Locomotive and Engine Works, and Société de St. Leonard.
There are numerous wonderful pictorial ads in the back for various locomotive and equipment manufacturers. Although there are no prices listed, this work can certainly be looked upon as being a trade catalog inasmuch as it offers a tremendous compilation of important designs produced by the leading locomotive manufacturers of the 19th century.
Condition: Spine rubbed and chipped, cloth soiled, contents lightly shaken, some cracking to inner hinges, plates clean. Should be rebound.