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Introduction
1: Early Locomotive Design and Manufacture
2: The Early Years of ‘The American Approach’
3: Development of Material – The Metals
4: How Were Measurements Determined?
5: Building a Locomotive – Frames: ‘Sandwich’, ‘Plate’ and ‘Bar’
6: Making a Crank Axle – Method and Problems
7: The Locomotive Boiler – Design and Construction
8: The Regulator and Boiler Design
9: The Safety Valve and ‘Pressure Gauge’
10: The Development of Valve Gear
11: Valve Gears and the Valves
12: The Indicator Diagram – A Note on What it is and What it Does
13: Locomotive Testing and the Test Plant on Which it is Done
14: Locomotive Wheels – Design and Manufacture
15: Locomotive Springs – Design and Manufacture
16: Locomotive Axle Box Design
17: Locomotive Lubrication
18: Locomotive Balancing
19: The Quest for Efficient Brakes – Hand, Steam, Vacuum, Air
20: An Efficient Way of Application – Automatic Train Control
21: The Vacuum System – The Air Brake and the Steam Brake
22: The ‘Injector’ – Getting Water into the Boiler
23: Cast Components and the Foundry – How do They Make Loco Cylinders?
24: Other Components – Hand Forging, Drop Stamping and Steam Hammer-Pressing
25: The ‘Nuts and Bolts’ Story
26: Outlines of History – Events of Locomotive Design and Use in the Mid-1800s
27: Locomotives Just Get Bigger – Classification of Wheel Arrangements
28: The American Dream – ‘Biggest is Best’ Up to the 2-10-10-2
29: Lifting and Moving Locomotives in the Main Workshops
30: Lifting and Moving Locomotives Outside the Main Workshops
31: The Swindon Workshops Through the Years
32: Workshop Staff – Time Recording and Payment Methods
33: The End of a Steam Locomotive Works
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