Engineering papers

Engineering papers

The following three English translations from the German of engineering papers by Von Dr. Ing. Arnold Tross, are available for download. Sincere thanks to Matt Janssen of the Vapor Locomotive Company, who commissioned the translations, for making them available to ASTT: Mathematical-Graphic Method for the Calculation of Rigid Staybolts with new design Shafts under all […]

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General Interest

Landau D., “Two Point Four Pounds per Ton – A Ramble through the History of Railway Mechanics“, 2003. Landau D., “Boiler Statistics – British Railways Maintenance Costs 1953-57“, published in SLS Journal Sept Oct 2004. Landau D., “From Shovels to CTs – Measuring the Energy of Trains“, published by the Railway Performance Society (date unknown).    

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Porta Papers

At least 250 papers covering a whole spectrum of topics about Modern Steam were written by Ing L.D. Porta over a 50 year period, most being written between 1970 and 1990, most being hand-written, and only a few were published.  ASTT has in its possession some 92 of these papers of which 35 have been […]

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