Negative Positive
Title: Engineering Perspective on Steam Locomotives
Review: This well illustrated book describes the basic engineering and thermodynamic principles by which a steam locomotive works without getting into a lot of obscure technical detail. It takes the reader through the types of technical improvements made over about 100 years to fit American railroading needs which were quite different from European conditions. It also describes the basic reasons why the steam locomotive lost its primacy to the diesel locomotive. It is done in an easily readable style with good uses of the illustrations to support the text.
Is the review positive or negative? 