Excerpt from Modern American Locomotive Engines, Their Design, Construction and Management: A Practical Work for Practical Men The following pages have been compiled at the cam est solicitation of a number of correspondents residing in different sections of the country, who have read the previous works of the writer's on steam engineering, evidently with both interest and profit. Many have asked: Why not get up a book on the locomotive, and complete the series? And this book is the result of those suggestions. There necessarily comes a time in the life of every locomotive engineer, particularly when old age and its attendant infirmities begin to make themselves felt, that he fain would resign the throttle valve, and leave the foot-board to younger and stronger men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.