The Little Yellow Trolley Car by Marie
Betts Bartlett is a delightful children’s book that’s available from G. Boreas Publish- ing. It tells the story of the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum’s Wason-built Shelburne Falls & Colrain Street Railway combine No. 10, which ran between those Massachusetts towns between 1896 and 1927 and then spent more than six decades on a nearby farm, serving as a chicken coop and tool shed before it was rescued and restored to operation in the 1990s. This book’s artwork is a bit different from most, being comprised of 32 nicely done cut-paper illustrations that depict the car’s in-service history and restoration. While the artwork and brief text is intended for potential traction fans aged two through eight years, their adult companions will also enjoy reading it with them. This full-color, 32-page 8¹/₄″×11″ soft- cover sells for $9.95 plus $3.00 shipping from G. Boreas Publishing Dept. RF, 83 Riv- er Rd., Leyden, MA 01337;
www.thelittle
yellowtrolleycar.com. MA residents, please add sales tax. You can ride the actual car and also find the book for sale in the gift shop at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Muse- um, located at 14 Depot St., Shelburne Falls, MA 01370;
sftm.org.
BOOK REVIEW
Davenport Locomotives Works 10th Edition Locomotive Catalog and 1933 Parts Catalog Edited by Thomas E. Burg; available from Merrill Publishing Associates Dept. RF, P.O. Box 51, Merrill, WI 54452;
www.merrillpublish
ingassociates.com. Softbound, 108 10”x7” b&w pages. $19.95 plus $3.95 shipping; WI residents add sales tax. Compact disc with additional material (see below) $20.00 plus $2.00 shipping and tax.
This book is a reprint of the Iowa indus- trial locomo- tive builder’s 10th edition rod locomotive catalog, which was published
on the company’s 25th anniversary in 1927, plus the steam locomotive repair parts catalog circa 1930-1933. The book begins with a brief history by Thomas E. Burg followed by the catalog pages, which are fascinating. As you might expect from an industrial lo- comotive builder, Davenport offered lots of small tank engines, mostly 0-4-0T’s, which were available in a staggering variety of sizes and gauges. And then there were the four- and six-coupled Forneys (some with saddle tanks), an 0-4-0 with both a saddle tank and four-wheel tender, and a selection of small, yet very handsome, 4-4-0, 4-6-0, 2-6-2, and 2-8-0 road engines. Did you know Davenport built geared locomotives? Not geared in the sense of the familiar Heisler, Climax, and Shay locomotives, but having a mostly conventional running gear where the main rods drove a jackshaft which was geared to the nearest driving axle. Internal combustion power gets short shrift with just two gasoline-mechanicals depicted, but the compact disc version of the publication (see below) provides more information on Daven- port diesels. The catalog uses Davenport’s system of five-letter telegraph codes which served as
the model number for each locomotive and specified certain options. For example “Dmain” specified a 2-6-0 tender engine with 32-inch drivers and 10″×16″ cylinders, while Dijum was an 0-6-4 Forney with 50- inch drivers and 17″×24″ cylinders. Addi- tional five-letter codes allowed the purchas- er to specify which type of boiler and firebox, cab, brakes, stack, headlight, valve gear, fu- el source, and track gauge were desired, us- ing the shorthand abbreviations to save time and money when sending orders via telegram. The parts catalog is nearly as fascinating
as the locomotive section, with 13 parts lists keyed to their opposing pages of simple line drawings. Additional plates illustrate the Davenport mechanical lubricator and the builder’s lifting and non-lifting injectors, all with cutaway drawings and parts called out in an accompanying list. Merrill also offers this publication on a compact disc which includes expanded cov- erage of Davenport diesels (only two inter- nal combustion locomotives appear in the paper version of the 10th edition catalog). The CD includes all the material contained in the softcover book plus an 18-page “Quick Maintenance Checks” booklet which enu- merates daily, weekly, and monthly mainte- nance protocols for Davenport diesels. The booklet is organized by subsystem, includ- ing underframe, superstructure, trucks, and engine, plus the lubricating, cooling, and fu- el systems. Also covered are rotating electri- cal gear, control systems, air brake systems, and auxiliary electricals. The booklet also contains maintenance checklists for use by enginemen and is followed by 14 pages of typewritten specifications for a 44-ton, 380- h.p. twin-engined centercab diesel powered by Caterpillar D-17000 engines. The spec sheets include a tractive effort chart. These well-done reprints provide detailed
insights into the product lines of a major in- dustrial locomotive builder. The two diesel publications provided on the CD will be of particular interest to any museums, indus- tries, or individuals who might still operate Davenport products. — WALT LANKENAU
VIDEO REVIEW
Dos Mundos, Volumes 1 and 2 Revelation Video, P.O. Box 129, Tallmadge , OH 44278;
www.revelationvideo.com;
330/630-9817. 100 minutes each, DVD only; $49.00 for both, $29.00 each postpaid to U.S. and Canada; overseas add $5.00. OH residents add sales tax.
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It’s been about ten years since there has been very much steam action in Cuba, the land of old American-built De Sotos, Stude- bakers, and Buicks, along with ancient Baldwins, Alcos, Vulcans, and Brill motor cars. These two re-mastered programs were originally issued in VHS format in 2002 and
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