Nos Inoubliables Vapeur

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Railway. Rail. Train. Rich iconography!

Table of Contents: A little history. Steam locomotive depots of the S.N.C.B. The evolution of technology. Style and decoration. Numbering and classification. First period, 1835-1852. Stephenson diet. Second period, 1853-1863. Experimental regime. Third period, 1864-1884. Belpaire regime. Fourth period. The companies taken over from 1870 to 1880. Fifth period, 1884-1898. Masui and Belpaire regime. Sixth period. The companies taken over from 1896 to 1912. Seventh period, 1898-1908. Mac Intosh diet. Eighth period, 1904-1914. Flame diet. Ninth period, 1914-1919. First World War and "Armistice" locomotives. Tenth period, 1920-1939. From the State to the S.N.C.B. Eleventh Period, 1940-1946. Recapture of northern Belgium and the Second World War. Twelfth period, 1948-1967. Resumption of the last companies and the last smoke. When steam was king at the S.N.C.B

 French text, numerous monochrome photographs. 112 pages 21x26 cm, sb.