American STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Builders PORTRAITS Book new

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American Locomotives in Historic Photographs, 1858 to 1949 , by Ron Ziel, published by Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 1993. 9 x 12 softcover, 126 b&w photos on 129 pages. ISBN 03-8.This book is new, slightly shopworn. It is not used. Builder portraits are especially prized by railway historians because they are the exacting official photographs of new locomotives fresh out of the shop, taken before repairs, alterations and weathering altered their original appearance. This rare collection of 126 "builder portraits" of American locomotives offers an exciting cavalcade of images that chronicle the momentous rise of steam locomotive power in America. The builder portraits reprinted were selected from the William A. Rogers collection, a priceless archive of images documenting the history of American steam locomotion from the pre-Civil War era to the mid-20th century. While the accent in this book is on the oldest and rarest photographs in the Rogers collection, many modern portraits are included as well to demonstrate how highly developed the American steam locomotive had become before the advent of dieselization. Among the engines depicted are the Espana , a diminutive model built for the Spanish government in 1858; engine No. 216 of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a "fearsome apparition of Gothic character" built in 1861; the Chimbote read more
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