THE author of this book holds the first place among those who many years ago made the locomotive an object of scientific study. His famous work on railway machinery is still of prime importance, ...

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Engraved handbill: Chaplin's patent portable steam engines and boilers, c. 1875. Advert for steam crane, with scene of one at work on the International Exhibition building of 1862 Engraved handbill: ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive ...

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