The Railroad Encyclopedia

Railroads exercise a hold over the imagination like no other form of transport, and the steam locomotive is surely the most emotive of man's mechanical creations. The largest section of this book is devoted to motive power. One section looks at such diverse and fascinating subjects as the building of the Canadian Pacific and the role of the armored train in war. Then a look into the future at high speed trains, urban metros, Maglev experiments and other advances that will secure for railroads a growing role in the 21st century. Superb color paintings of locomotive profiles, hundreds of outstanding color and black-and-white photographs, technical data, tables of speed records, detailed index.