Btw, some great books on Steam locomotives/engines: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ9JG2M https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ9JG2M - American steam

Btw, some great books on Steam locomotives/engines: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ9JG2M https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ9JG2M - American steam locomotives 1880–1960. The author of drove locomotives, and was the transportation curator at the Smithsonian Museum. He wrote it over 30 years, and you can tell the amount of care and detail he put into with the details and history. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UYU1PC https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UYU1PC - How Steam Engines Really Work, provides a modern perspective on the important systems and concepts for steam engines. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BFJB3Z https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072BFJB3Z - The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. Talks about how precision engineering was critical to the invention and wider use of steam engines.