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Relive train travel's earliest days with this splendidly illustrated story of steam locomotion, from "teakettles" to "titans." Working from builders' specifications, old engravings, and written contemporaneous accounts, author Reed Kinert re-creates in accurate renderings, the earliest locomotives -- many of which were built and used before the advent of photography.Kinert, Reed is the author of 'Early American Steam Locomotives', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486443980 and ISBN 0486443981.
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