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Recent Locomotives
Recent Locomotives
Recent Locomotives
Recent Locomotives
Recent Locomotives

Trains, Recent Locomotives, Illustrated Book, Railroad Gazette, Antique, 1883 (Sold)

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Recent Locomotives. Illustrations, With Descriptions and Specifications and Details, of Recent American and European Locomotives, Reprinted from The Railroad Gazette
The Railroad Gazette, New York: 1883
Folio, 16 inches x 11 1/2 inches, quarter leather over cloth
46pp + 203 figures (including designs and diagrams)
Index, a section of advertisements, and an index to advertisers

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.

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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.

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19th Century