Transcriber's Notes:
Reading edition
The Table of Contents was added by the transcriber.
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Some inconsistent punctuation has been normalized throughout the book.
Some inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. smokestack vs. smoke-stack) has been retained.
Some illustrations in this book appear to have been lifted from Locomotive Engine Driving: A Practical Manual for Engineers in Charge of Locomotive Engines by Michael Reynolds (London: Crosby Lockwood, 1888).
Fractions have been normalized to the form X-Y/Z.
Page 5, changed "locomotiive" to "locomotive."
Page 7, changed "Engilsh" to "English."
Page 8, changed "clumsey" to "clumsy" and "prise" to "prize."
Page 16, changed "guage" to "gauge."
Page 17, changed "will came" to "will come."
Page 19, changed "where on can" to "where one can."
Page 21, changed "gain" to "gains."
Page 22, changed "reponsibility" to "responsibility."
Page 24, changed "read then" to "read them."
Page 27, changed "thinest" to "thinnest."
Page 29, changed "guage" to "gauge" (twice) and "at at" to "at."
Page 34, changed "undestand" to "understand."
Page 51, changed "shown it Fig. 35" to "shown in Fig. 35" and "llittle" to "little."
Page 56, changed "definately" to "definitely."
Page 57, changed "air-brakes consists" to "air-brake consists."