1. Gosudarstvennaya duma: Doklady byudzhetnoi komissii, SPB 1907, p. 158.
2. Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, vol. 37 (London, 1886) pp. 297–302.
3. For more on testing plants, see: S. A. Sokolova, ‘Razvitiye laboratornogo metoda ispytanii lokomotivov’, in Trudy instituta istorii estestvoznaniya i tekhniki, vol. 29 (M, 1960) pp. 165–201
4. and D. R. Carling, ‘Locomotive Testing Stations’, in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XLV (Cambridge, 1975) PP.105–82.
5. Yu. Lomonosov, Opyty nad tipami parovozov (Berlin, 1925) gives not only technical and background information, but also conveys the pride of its author in his science.