Description
Wright, Roy V., et. al. Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice: Definitions and Typical Illustrations of Railroad and Industrial Locomotives, Their Parts and Equipment; also Locomotives Built in America for Operation in Foreign Countries – Including a Section on Locomotive Shops and Engine Terminals. (New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1938)
Quarto. 1232 pages, profusely illustrated. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on spine with title and date and blind stamped rules on covers. All edges stained red.
Condition: VG+. Spotting on cover, corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown of Thomas Townsend Taber, a prolific author of railroad histories.
Provenance: From the collection of Thomas Townsend Taber III.
Royden Vincent (Roy) Wright (October 8, 1876 – July 9, 1948) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate.
Wright was born October 8, 1876 in Red Wing, Minnesota, the son of Reuben Andrus Wright (1851–1927) and Louisa Anna Schaefer Wright (1855-1945). He attended public schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was an 1898 graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He moved to East Orange, New Jersey in 1904.
Wright was a Director and Vice President of the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. He was the 50th President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also served as Managing Editor of Railway Age, an American trade journal for the rail transport industry, from 1911 until his death in 1948. – Wikipedia
