Charles S. Small
Autor/a de California's railway guns
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- 52
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- #307,430
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- 4.0
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- 1
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- 7
But the stars have to be the railways and engines themselves. The Eritrean narrow-gauge is getting better-known these days, but there are tantalising images of engines that must be long-gone: Swiss Moguls in Djibouti, a Belgian Pacific at Addis Ababa, an Italian-built Garrett, ancient Mallets in Madagascar, immaculate Baldwin 2-10-2s in Mozambique, classic American 4-4-0s of 1876 high in the Andes on a branch of the Central Railway of Peru, and ancient electrics and engines with unfeasibly large spark arrestors on the Japanese narrow gauge. sone of the maps leave something to be desired in the accuracy department, but on the whole this is a fine little book.… (més)