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Author:	George H. Harlan
Title:	Those Amazing Cab Forwards
Publisher:	George H. Harlan
Country:	USA
Date:	Mar 1983
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Transport, History
ISBN-10:	9992101113
ISBN-13:	9789992101117
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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WPLives 24th Jul 2021		Illustrations include 180 historic photographs, two paintings, and ten line drawings. One of the paintings is by Howard Fogg and is also used as the jacket art. From the jacket blurb: ''This is the story of the Southern Pacific's cab forward locomotives with sketch biographies of their inventors and the adoption of this type of steam engine by the Southern Pacific. For over forty years the cab forward locomotive was the workhorse of the Southern Pacific's mountain divisions, finally recording its presence over most of the Pacific System. Built to eliminate the smoke and gas problem in tunnels and snow sheds and to generally improve visibility from a long-boilered steam locomotive, the cab forward provided the SP with a most utilitarian road engine, attested to by the fact that the road employed 256 such locomotives. This provides engineering details, construction features, performance, a detailed roster and a pictorial presentation of unique detail and comprehensiveness.''



WPLives 24th Jul 2021		Greenbrae, California: Self Published, 1983. 1st Edition, Hardbound, about 11.25 inches tall by 8.75 inches wide, 159 pages. Index. Photo endpapers. Illustrations include 180 historic photographs, two paintings, and ten line drawings.



WPLives 24th Jul 2021		Beautifully done history of the locomotives with pages of b/w photos as well as maps and diagrams. End papers decorated with two-page photo spread. 160 pages with bibliography and index.

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