Makin' Tracks
References

American Railroad Engineering Association:

Portfolio of Trackwork Plans, 1990

Stresses in Railroad Track - The Talbot Reports, 1980

 

Ball, D, and Whittaker, R.E.M., Decade of the Trains - the 1940's, New York Graphic Society, 1977

 

Bush, E.F., Engine Houses and Turntables of Canadian Railways - 1850-1950, The Boston Mills Press, 1990

 

Drawing and Railroad Engineering Calculations, International Library of Technology #281, International Textbook Company, Scranton, PA, 1927.

 

Hay, William., Railroad Engineering, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1982

 

Kirkman, Marshall M., Science of Railways, 1912:

Shops and Shop Practice, Vol. 1 and 2

Operating Trains

Engineers and Firemans Handbook

Locomotive and Motive Power Department

Electricity Applied to Railways

 

Meyer, C. and Gibson, D., Route Surveying and Design, Fifth Edition, Harper Collins, 1980.

 

North, Paul, American Steam Locomotives, Gallery Books, 1988

 

Sanford, Barrie, Steel Rails and Iron Men...A Pictorial History of the Kettle Valley Railway, Whitecap Books, 1990

 

Searles, Wm and Ives, H.C. , Field Engineering, A Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Railway Surveying, Location, and Construction, Vol 1 and 2, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1936.

 

Simmons Boardman Books:

The Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia, 1980

The Track Handbook, 1991

Track Foreman's Training Program, 1975, 1983

Tracking R&D, 1992

 

Stilgoe, John R., Metropolitan Corridor - Railroads and the American Scene, Yale University Press, 1983

 

Timoshenko, S., Vibration Problems in Engineering, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Second Edition, 1937.

 

United States Department of Transportation, Federal Railroads Administration:

Part 213-Track Safety Standards

Part 215 - Railroad Freight Car Safety Standards

Part 229-Railroad Locomotive Safety Standards.

 

Wally, Thomas (Editor), Wonders of World Engineering, Vols. 1 and 2, Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c. 1930

 

Weiner, Lionel, Articulated Locomotives, Kalmbach Publishing Company, Milwaukee, 1971

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