Steam Locomotives
KRATVILLE, William W.& BUSH, John E.
The Union Pacific Type - The story of Union Pacific's 3-cylinder power
Volumes One & Two
Very fine study of the 4-12-2 Union Pacific locomotives, illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams in two substantial volumes.
LAPAGE, R. Herbert
On Compound Locomotives
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, January 1889
1889 ICME article by Lepage, who had been Locomotive Superintendent of the Argentine Government Railways. In 1886 he designed the first compound goods locomotive in Great Britain which was tested by the Caledonian Railway.
LAVALLÉE, Omer
Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data [Steam Locomotives 1945]
A reprint of the CP 'Classification and Dimensions of Locomotives' of January 1945. Diagrams and data throughout.
LEHMANN, Raimar
Special Steam Locomotives
Privately published review of worldwide locomotives built to a special or unusual design, or for a special purpose, providing histories, data, technical information and descriptions. Illustrated throughout.
LeMASSENA, Robert A.
American Steam - The Photos of Ben F. Cutler / Locomotives of the Northeast
Volumes 1 & 2
Two fine albums of photographs; the first a dedicated work of a single photographer, largely covering the Midwest and Pacific, and the second the Northeast.
Volume One - The Photos of Ben F. Cutler;
Volume Two - Locomotives of the Northeast.