The German Pacific Locomotive: Its Design and Development (Locomotive Portfolios) by Maidment, David - 10/30/2017 12:00:01

Pen and Sword Transport. New. 2017. Hardcover. New. Dust Jacket is Fine.

Pen and Sword, 2017-10-30. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1400 10.3500 9.7600.

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Barnsley: Pen & Sword Transport, 2017. The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans pacific in France, were the first of that wheel layout in Europe and came to be the dominant type for express passenger work throughout Western Europe for the following fifty years, until displaced by diesel and electric traction. The German railways in the first two decades of the twentieth century were run principally as regional State railways, and two distinct styles of design developed, which were influenced by the natural terrain. In the south, in the mountainous foothills of the European Alps, four cylinder compound locomotives with comparatively small coupled wheels, most produced by the famous firm of Maffei in Munich, held sway from 1907 until… Read More

Published by Pen & Sword Transport, 2017. 1st edition.. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. The design, construction and operation of the full range of pacifics that ran in both parts of Germany, and the large numbers of these locomotives that have been preserved. Oblong format. Green cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w & colour photos. 400 pages.

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Barnsley: Pen & Sword Transport, 2017. Describes the design, construction and operation of the full range of pacific steam locomotives that ran in both parts of Germany, and the large numbers of these locomotives that have been preserved. 400 pages. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour photographs. Dark green boards in jacket. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 25 Cm x 26 Cm.