The 4-10-2; Three Barrels of Steam

Book Description

Felton, California: Glenwood Publishers, 1973 First edition. Quarto. Presentation inscription, SIGNED by the author. 164pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, one color plate, numerous detailed technical drawings (1 folding). Red cloth spine lettered in black, pictorial cloth sides. Very minor wear to foot of spine. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket shows wear to spine ends and corners). A pictorial documentary covering all sixty of the three-cylinder 4-10-2 locomotives in the United States. This work, quite scarce as a first edition, provides an informative history of these giant locomotives and covers train wrecks, robberies, explosions, floods and other disasters involving these engines..

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