Category:Early steam locomotives - Wikipedia
Articles about steam locomotives (and locomotive types/classes) built before 1840. Of these, see info-box immediately below for the most well-known individual steam locomotives built before 1830 (listed by year).
Railroad - Early American, Steam Engines, Expansion | Britannica
2024年11月10日 · It was the brute strength of American locomotives, their great tolerance of cheap and crude track, their durability, their economy of operation, and their simplicity of maintenance that determined almost from the first years of operation that there would be a distinctively American railroad sharing little with British practice.
Steam Locomotives (USA), The Classic "Iron Horse" - American-Rails.com
Steam locomotives are impressive, captivating, ingenious, complex, and dangerous devices all wrapped within a single frame. Nothing else in railroading has ever been quite as alluring.
Early American steam locomotives; 1st seven decades, 1830-1900
2010年6月2日 · by. Kinert, Reed. Publication date. 1962. Topics. Steam locomotives. Publisher. Seattle, Superior Pub. Co.
4-4-0 "American" Type: The Common 19th Century Engine - American-Rails.com
In essence, the American paved the way, standardizing several steam locomotive design elements — from cowcatchers to front-mounted headlamps — which became staple features of future models. A replica of Central Pacific's 4-4-0 #60 ("Jupiter"), Great Northern 4-4-0 #1 ("William Crooks"), and Burlington's original "Pioneer Zephyr" pose ...
John H. White Jr., A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE
The 4-4-0, variously called the American type or the standard eight-wheel engine, was the most popular wheel arrangement in nineteenth-century America.9 It succeeded because it met every requirement of early United States railroads. It was well suited to al1 service, including passenger, freight, and switching.
The Evolution of the American Locomotive.
The early locomotives were contemptuously called "steam pots," by the stage coach and canal proprietors, and they, together with other interested parties, to say nothing of the large class of people who objected to innovations on general principles, made the work of the first railway mechanical engineers one of extraordinary difficulty.
Early American Steam Locomotives - amazon.com
2005年12月27日 · Relive the early days of train travel with this exciting illustrated story of steam locomotion. Working with great love and skill from builders' specifications, old engravings, and contemporaneous accounts, author Reed Kinert recreates, in exacting detail, illustrations of the earliest locomotives—many of which were built and used before the ...
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Locomotives & Rolling Stock - B&O Railroad Museum
The Museum’s locomotive and rolling stock collection contains many unique examples of historically significant pieces from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as well as other regional railroads and includes the finest collection of 19th Century …
Early American Railroads [ushistory.org]
A man named George Stephenson successfully applied the steam technology of the day and created the world's first successful locomotive. The first engines used in the United States were purchased from the Stephenson Works in England.