compiled by Emmett R Smith
[Mr Smith swears on a stack of Bibles and the Holy Quran AND the beard of his grandfather’s goat that he WILL tidy up the draught-text infra if & when he gets round to it, or anyway by the time Hell is a cinder! He says…. BW]
Here follow the links I have accumulated thus far on different railroads and questions as they have come up. These come from my “favorites” sidebar, and are in some semblance there of alphabetical order.
21st Century Steam Traction:
http://straction.wordpress.com/
The American Railroads:
http://www.american-rails.com/index.html
AMTRAK:
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/HomePage
The Baltimore and Ohio Network:
Berliner’s Railroad Page:
http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/rr.html
(or start from:)
http://home.att.net/~berliner-ultrasonics/
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Historical Society:
The Crestline Roundhouse Preservation Society, Inc:
http://www.crestlineroundhouse.org/
dynamic augment, or “hammering”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_blow
dynamic augment attempted locomotive design solutions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_locomotive
Elwood’s Fallen Flags and Other Railroad Photos:
everything2:
Great Northern Railway Page:
GWR ‘Manor’ 7800 Class:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_7800_Class
Hagley Digital Archives:
http://digital.hagley.org/index.php
How To WORK A Steam Locomotive:
http://www.nymr.demon.co.uk/works/works.htm
The Library Of Congress (LOC) American Memory:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
LOC Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/052_fsa.html
LOC Prints and Photographs Division:
Livio Dante Porta:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livio_Dante_Porta
LOCOMOTIVE DESIGNER A G Trumbull:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3943/is_200409/ai_n9425677/
locomotive headlamps:
http://www.ideashelper.com/history-railway-locomotive-headlamp-14.htm
locomotive riveting:
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1021339
Locomotives de France et d’ailleurs:
http://mc.locomotives.free.fr/
MechMania:
http://mechmania.wordpress.com/
Mid Hants Railway Watercress Line:
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/
Minnesota Digital Library:
Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS):
National Railway Historical Society (NRHS):
NationMaster Encyclopedia:
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/
The NERAIL North American Railroad Photo Archive:
Norfolk & Western Historical Society:
Norfolk & Western Railway Digital Images:
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/testdata/nw/nw.html
Norfolk and Western Railway History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway
[picture from: Google Images Norfolk and Western Steam Locomotives]
Norfolk & Western Steam:
http://www.retroweb.com/nwsteam.html
North East Rails:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/home.html
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (NPRHA):
NRM National Railway Museum:
http://www.nrm.org.uk/home/home.asp
Otto Perry images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Otto_Perry_images
Paper Modelers:
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PACIFIC CLASS K4s
(click on link and scroll down to Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Class Pacific):
http://www.railserve.com/Steam_Locomotives/
Pennsylvania Railroad WebRing:
http://e.webring.com/hub?ring=prr
PRR Technical & Historical Society:
PRR Steam Locomotive Index:
http://prrsteam.mrdek.com/prr_index.html
Peter J. McClosky’s Southern Pacific Railroad Web Resources Page:
http://www.sphts.org/pmcclosky/spwebresources.html
Public Land Survey Plat Maps of Minnesota:
http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/glo/
rail gauge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania:
http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/index.shtml
RailroadData.Com:
RailroadForums.Com:
http://www.railroadforums.com/
RAILsearch.com:
RailServe.com (You WILL surf away THE rest or your life on Earth!):
RAILWAY & LOCOMOTIVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
http://www.rlhs.org/rlhsnews/rlhsnewt.htm
Richard Leonard’s Rail Archive:
http://www.railarchive.net/index.html
Robin Barnes — Railway Art and History:
Schenzinger Image Directory:
http://www.llarson.com/steam/schenzinger/NA0.htm
(or try:)
(&)
Scott Dunlap’s Railroad Picture Archives!
http://swdunlap.rrpicturearchives.net/
SR Bulleid ‘Leader’ class:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Leader_Class
SR ‘Merchant Navy’ class:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Merchant_Navy_Class
SR ‘West Country’ and ‘Battle of Britain’ classes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_West_Country_and_Battle_of_Britain_Classes
Steam Locomotive dot Com
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/
Steam Locomotive Fans!
http://www.freewebs.com/steamfans/index.htm
STEAM LOCOMOTIVE-TYPE BOILERS AND ASSOCIATED FITTINGS COURSE NOTES:
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/tw/pages/mutual.htm
Steam Railway Engine DETAIL Photos:
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/tw/pages/howworks.htm
SteamCad Collection of AutoCad © Line Drawings:
Steamtown:
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/steamtown/shs2u.htm
Strange Engines:
http://strangengines.wordpress.com/
tractive force (TE):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractive_effort
train wreck timeline (pre-1950):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-1950_rail_accidents
train wreck timeline (1950-2000):
http://crazycrashes.wordpress.com/train-wreck-historical-timeline-1950-to-2000/
TrainNet.org International Railway Links:
http://www.tadlane.com/rrlinks.htm
Trainorders dot Com:
TrainWeb:
The Ultimate Steam Page:
http://www.trainweb.org/tusp/libra.html
Union Pacific History & Photos:
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/index.shtml
WayBackMachine:
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Whyte notation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyte_notation
21st Century Steam – The 5AT Project:
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