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Apex of the Atlantics by Frederick Westing w/ dust jacket
Apex of the Atlantics by Frederick Westing
Hard Cover with dust jacket (dust jacket has some damage/wear)
Copyright 1963.
167 pages. Indexed.
CONTENTS
Introduction ------6
1 Atlantic ancestry ----10
2 Alfred W. Gibbs ----22
3 "The Big E" -----38
4 Acid tests-----46
5 Additions to the clan ---52
6 Creating a classic ----58
7 The first E6 becomes the best-70
8 Apex of the Atlantics ---78
9 Martin H. Lee and the E6 --92
10 Oliver P. Keller and the E6 --106
11 On the road -----114
12 The Lindbergh Special ---126
13 Closing years -----136
14 The E6's place in Atlantic heritage 150
Master specification tables ---160
Acknowledgments----165
Index-----166
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
THE fleet of 80 brand-new barrel-chested Atlantics produced by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona Works in 1914 startled the industry. Why, the 4-4-2 was obsolete, rendered so by the impact on train weights of the all-steel passenger car. Only the six-coupled Pacific was equal to the task. PRR designer Alfred W. Gibbs dissented. In 1910 he engineered "the Big E," a horse of an Atlantic that asked no quarter from the system's K2 4-6-2's. The first E6 soon had two superheated sisters, and all three were subjected to the most thorough test-plant and road trials. A British technical journal felt compelled to call the final E6s production model "a product of the test plant." In Apex of the Atlantics Frederick Westing tells her story - of how she was the first engine to produce over 1000 h.p. per driving axle, of the huge trains she moved in World War I, of the specials she sped over 100 mph. Westing writes of the men who created and ran the E6s, documents his story with test-plant data and road performance, explains the 4-4-2 in detail from her flanges up. His text, supported by 116 photos and 20 drawings, constitutes an extraordinary book about an extraordinary locomotive.
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