Collected for your enjoyment on one DVD, thirty-two {32} historical steam locomotive books from 1836 to 1928. Each book covers the early days of steam railroading - loads of vintage railroading photos and illustrations - thousands of pages of information collected all on one DVD.

The United States started developing steam locomotives in 1829 with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Tom Thumb. This was the first locomotive to run in America, although it was intended as a demonstration of the potential of steam traction, rather than as a revenue-earning locomotive. The first successful steam railway in the US was the South Carolina Railroad whose inaugural train ran in December 1830 hauled by the Best Friend of Charleston. Many of the earliest locomotives for American railroads were imported from England, including the Stourbridge Lion and the John Bull, but a domestic locomotive manufacturing industry was quickly established, with locomotives like the DeWitt Clinton being built in the 1830s. The CD collection covers a variety of early steam locomotive history topics. (Note there is some duplication of book titles between each DVD in this series.)

32 Titles for Your Enjoyment:


:: 1836 Means of Comparing Railways.

:: 1840 The Steam Engine.

:: 1861 History of The Panama Railroad.

:: 1870 Natheen Read - Inventor

:: 1871 The Railways of Canada.

:: 1873 Steam & The Steam Engine.

:: 1873 The Locomotive Engine.

:: 1875 The Pennsylvania Railroad.

:: 1881 History of the St.Paul & Sioux.

:: 1883 History of the Northern Pacific.

:: 1886 Rogers Locomotive Works.

:: 1888 Railroads, Origins and Problems.

:: 1892 25 Years With the NYC Railroad.

:: 1899 Evolution of the Steam Locomotive.

:: 1900 American Locomotives

:: 1906 History of Boston Div. #69 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

:: 1907 Railroad transportation - History and Laws.

:: 1907 Substitution of Electric For Steam.

:: The Boys Book Of Locomotives.

:: 1908 Builders of The Nation.

:: 1908 The Railway Locomotive.

:: 1910 How We Built The Union Pacific.

:: 1910 Locomotives of the Great Northern.

:: 1910 Railroad Transportation.

:: 1911 Locomotive Building.

:: 1911 Railway Conquest of the World

:: 1912 Motive Power of the B & O.

:: 1912 The Modern Locomotive.

:: 1921 The Boston and Maine Railroad.

:: 1922 History of the Southern Pacific.

:: 1924 The Book of The Locomotive.

:: 1928 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

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