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With its ability to haul great loads at high speeds, across vast distances, the USE locomotive will be, in
the words of Jessamyn West, "a big iron needle stitching the country together."
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*Alexander, Iron Horses: American Locomotives 1829-1850 (1941)(all refs are to plate #).
*[EA] "Railroads," Encyclopedia Americana
*[EB11]Encyclopedia Britannica , 11thed. (1911), [EB11/R] "Railways," [EB11/B] "Boiler,"
[EB11/SE] "Steam Engine;" see also "Rolling Mills," "Brake," "Traction," "Coal," "Fuel," etc.
*Ellis,Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways
*Gordon,Trains: An Illustrated History of Locomotive Development
Armstrong,The Railroad What It Is, What It Does: The Introduction to Railroading (1978).
Bruce,The Steam Locomotive in America: Its Development in the Twentieth Century (1952)
Clarke, et al.,The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management and Appliances
(1972)(reprint of 1897 edition)
[NOCK/RE] Nock,Encyclopedia of Railroads (1977).
Sinclair,Development of the Locomotive Engine (1970)(reprint of 1907 edition with additional
material)
White,American Locomotives, An Engineering History, 1830-1880(1968).
Connor,Military Railways (1917), available online at
http://www.trainweb.org/girr/military_railways/military_railways.html
Krug, "Steam versus Diesel,"
Ludy,Locomotive Boilers and Engines: A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Boiler and Engine
Design, Construction, and Operation (1920), available online at
Self, "Balanced Locomotives,"
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/balanced/balanced.htm and "How To
Articulate Locomotive," .../articult/articult.htm
Baldwin, "Calculations, Delineations, Classifications,"
Forney, "The Limitations of Fast Running,"
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[WLW] "Whitcomb Locomotive Works,"
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/w/wh/whitcomb_locomotive_works.htm
Netherwood, "Operation of Locomotive Type Boilers and Associated Fittings" (2001)
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IMAGES
Note from Editor:
There are various images, mostly portraits from the time, which illustrate different aspects of the 1632
universe. In the first issue of theGrantville Gazette, I included those with the volume itself. Since that
created downloading problems for some people, however, I've separated all the images and they will be
maintained and expanded on their own schedule.
If you're interested, you can look at the images and my accompanying commentary at no extra cost.
They are set up in the Baen Free Library. You can find them as follows:
1) Go towww.baen.com
2) Select "Free Library" from the blue menu at the top.
3) Once in the Library, select "The Authors" from the yellow menu on the left.
4) Once in "The Authors," select "Eric Flint."
5) Then select "Images from the Grantville Gazette."
SUBMISSIONS TO THE MAGAZINE
If anyone is interested in submitting stories or articles for future issues of theGrantville Gazette, you are
welcome to do so. But you must follow a certain procedure:
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1) All stories and articles must first be posted in a conference in Baen's Bar set aside for the purpose,
called "1632 Slush." Donot send them to me directly, because I won't read them. It's good idea to
submit a sketch of your story to the conference first, since people there will likely spot any major
problems that you overlooked. That can wind up saving you a lot of wasted work.
You can get to that conference by going to Baen Books' web sitewww.baen.com
. Then select "Baen's Bar." If it's your first visit, you will need to register. (That's
quick and easy.) Once you're in the Bar, the three conferences devoted to the 1632 universe are "1632
Slush," "1632 Slush Comments," and "1632 Tech Manual." You should post your sketch, outline or story
in "1632 Slush." Any discussion of it should take place in "1632 Slush Comments." The "1632 Tech
Manual" is for any general discussion not specifically related to a specific story.
2) Your story/article will then be subjected to discussion and commentary by participants in the 1632
discussion. In essence, it will get chewed on by what amounts to a very large, virtual writers' group.
You donot need to wait until you've finished the story to start posting it in "1632 Slush." In fact, it's a
good idea not to wait, because you will often find that problems can be spotted early in the game, before
you've put all the work into completing the piece.
3) While this is happening, the assistant editor of theGrantville Gazette, Paula Goodlett, will be keeping
an eye on the discussion. She will alert me whenever a story or article seems to be gaining general
approval from the participants in the discussion. There's also an editorial board to which Paula and I
belong, which does much the same thing. The other members of the board are Karen Bergstralh, Rick
Boatright, and Laura Runkle. In addition, authors who publish regularly in the 1632 setting participate on
the board asex officio members. My point is that plenty of people will be looking over the various stories
being submitted, so you needn't worry that your story will just get lost in the shuffle.
4) At that point andonly at that point do I take a look at a story or article.
I insist that people follow this procedure, for two reasons:
First, as I said, I'm very busy and I just don't have time to read everything submitted until I have some
reason to think it's gotten past a certain preliminary screening.
Secondly, and even more importantly, the setting and "established canon" in this series is quite extensive
by now. If anyone tries to write a story without first taking the time to become familiar with the setting,
they will almost invariably write something which even if it's otherwise well written I simply can't
accept.
In short, the procedure outlined above will saveyou a lot of wasted time and effort also.
One point in particular: I have gotten extremely hardnosed about the way in which people use American
characters in their stories (so-called "up-timers"). That's because I began discovering that my small and
realistically portrayed coal mining town of 3500 people was being willy-nilly transformed into a "town"
with a population of something like 20,000 people half of whom were Navy SEALs who just
happened to be in town at the Ring of Fire, half of whom were rocket scientists (ibid), half of whom were
brain surgeons (ibid), half of whom had a personal library the size of the Library of Congress, half of
whom . . .
Not to mention the F-16s which "just happened" to be flying through the area, the Army convoys (ibid),
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the trains full of vital industrial supplies (ibid), the FBI agents in hot pursuit of master criminals (ibid), the .
. .
NOT A CHANCE. If you want to use an up-time character, youmust use one of the "authorized"
characters. Those are the characters created by Virginia DeMarce using genealogical software and
embodied in what is called "the grid."
You can obtain a copy of the grid from the web site which collects and presents the by-now voluminous
material concerning the series,www.1632.org . Look on the right for the link to
"Virginia's Up-timer Grid." While you're at it, you should also look further down at the links under the title
"Authors' Manual."
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