ISBN: 9780948904059 - Practical Treatise on Railroads: Plates (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprinted with an Introduction by Dr. Paul E. Waters. Provides a brief summary of Nicholas Wood's life and an excerpt from the Hexham Courant (1866) describing the importance of Nicholas Woods's experiments. With fourteen oversized fold-out plates showing tracks, rail, turnouts, turntable, wheels, brake, wagons, dynamometer, inclined planes and locomotives. A letter signed from author to Railway Magazine dated Oct.1989 is enclosed. Copyright © P.E. Waters & Associates, Bromley, Kent UK. …