Leopold Niederstrasser

The standard textbook for everyone who had to operate or maintain German steam locomotives. Would be a bit dry to slog through from cover to cover, but it's full of fascinating technical details and straightforward practical explanations of how the various systems on a loco work and why they are there. As well as the many diagrams in the text, there's a big sheaf of large fold-out drawings in a pocket at the back of the book, including general arrangements of all the main types of standard loco still in service in the fifties.… (plus d'informations)