I do like these kind of catalogs. I've started buying some older reference books. Partially because they're cool history and partially because some have really direct applicable information.

I can't count how many hours I have spent combing through old archive pictures/documents on the internet haha

If I could get minimum wage for every hour I've spent on google books and archive.org it would be a decent sized check!

I found a few hand books. The work manager's guide even mentions how to handle shop injuries.

https://archive.org/details/wo...e/n10?q=crosby+valve

https://archive.org/details/mo...ge/n8?q=crosby+valve

https://archive.org/details/sm...ge/n7?q=ashton+valve

https://archive.org/details/ra...omotive+repair+parts

Mechanical heating and ventilation, an exhaustive analysis of all systems 1895

https://archive.org/details/me...+ventilation+journal

The Westinghouse automatic and straight air-brake combined E. T. equipment and machinery. Questions and answers with their defects and remedies ..1920

https://archive.org/details/we...ry+of+pessure+gauges

Practical points, a handbook for... engineers 1903

https://archive.org/details/pr.../n5?q=steam+whistles

Catalogue "B", pumps and hydraulic machinery for every service ..1900
by Goulds Mfg.

https://archive.org/details/ca.../n5?q=steam+whistles

Price-list of plumbers' brass work, copper, iron, and earthen ware, and plumbing materials manufactured by Hayden, Gere & Co. : for sale by Dalton & Ingersoll, no. 19 Union St., Boston. 1866

https://archive.org/details/pr.../n5?q=steam+whistles

Some old Baldwin Locomotive catalogs. Great stuff!

Illustrated catalogue of locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works 1881
by Baldwin Locomotive Works; Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co

https://archive.org/details/il...q=locomotive+engines

Baldwin Locomotive Works; 1906
by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation. [from old catalog]

https://archive.org/details/ba...?q=steam+locomotives

Rick,

Thanks for the links - great content in each of those texts/catalogs.

Mechanical catalog. 1934

byThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers

https://archive.org/details/Me...08/mode/2up?q=ashton