Locomotive Catechism: A Practical and Complete Work on the Locomotive--treating on the Design, Construction, Repair and Running of All Kinds of Locomotives ... Contains Over 3,000 Examination Questions with Their Answers ...

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Norman W. Henley Publishing Company, 1911 - 817 стор.

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