Railways of the USA

Railways of the World

by Oswald Stevens Nock

Takes a thirteen-thousand-mile tour down the East Coast, to New Orleans and Chicago, across the Rockies to Los Angeles, and up to Seattle, covering the development, rolling stock, motive power, and technology of each major railroad company

317 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Oswald Stevens "Ossie" Nock was a British railway signal engineer and senior manager at the Westinghouse company. He is best known for his prodigious output of publications on railway subjects, including over 100 books, as well as a large number of more technical works on locomotive performance.