An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or an on-board energy storage device (such as a chemical battery or fuel cell). Electrically propelled locomotives with on-board fuelled prime movers, such as diesel engines or gas turbines, are classed as diesel-electric or gas turbine electric locomotives because the electric generator/motor combination only serves as a power transmission system. Electricity is used to eliminate smoke and take advantage of the high efficiency of electric motors, however the cost of railway electrification means that usually only heavily used lines can be electrified.

We present this wonderful library of forty {40} vintage books, providing a unique glimpse into the early days of the electric railway on a Gift Quality DVD.

Book Titles Included in This Library:

:: A textbook on electric street-car running {1901}

:: American electric railway practice {1907}

:: Central electric light and power stations and street and electrical railways {1915}

:: Cyclopedia Of Applied Electricity {1916}

:: Electric car maintenance, selected from the Electric railway journal {1914}

:: Electric Railway Directory and Buyers' Manual {1907}

:: Electric railway engineering {1892}

:: Electric railway engineering {1911}

:: Electric railway practices {1924}

:: Electric railway systems {1915}

:: Electric railway transportation {1911}

:: Electric railway transportation {1917}

:: Electric railways - a treatise on the modern development of electric traction {1908}

:: Electric railways and tramways their construction and operation {1897}

:: Electric railways, theoretically and practically treated {1905}

:: Electric street railways {1896}

:: Electric traction and transmission engineering {1911}

:: Engineering preliminaries for an interurban electric railway {1903}

:: Hawkins Electrical Guide {1927}

:: History of the West End street railway, in which is included sketches of the early street railway of Boston {1892}

:: McGraw electric railway manual; the red book of American street railway investments {1903}

:: Miscellaneous tests of electric car equipment {1910}

:: Power distribution for electric railroads {1900}

:: Practical construction of electric tramways {1903}

:: Practical electric railway hand book {1906}

:: Practical helps for the electric railway shop, track, power, line and rolling stock departments {1919}

:: Railroad electrification and the electric locomotive {1923}

:: Shop tests on electric car equipment {1909}

:: Single-phase Electric Railways {1915}

:: Some graphical solutions of electric railway problems {1916}

:: Stray currents from electric railways {1906}

:: Street and electric railways {1905}

:: Street-railway roadbed {1898}

:: The Burnet Co - Dealers of railroad, electric, telegraph,telephone, mine, mill supplies {1900}

:: The electric railway {1915}

:: The electric railway in theory and practice {1893}

:: The motorman and his duties a handbook of the theory and practice of electric railway car operation {1907}

:: Traction Railways {1873}

:: Training for the electric railway business {1919}

:: Westinghouse electric street car equipments {1896}

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