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Critters In Color Volume 4 BY Stephen M Timko Morning Sun Books
CRITTERS In Color Volume 4 BY Stephen M Timko Morning Sun Books
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
128 pages
Copyright 2013 First Printing
CONTENT
The Atlas Car & Manufacturing Company4
Baldwin Locomotive Works 5
Brookville Locomotive Company7
Davenport Locomotive Works /
Davenport-Besler Corp7
General Electric Company10
GM-EMD
(General Motors Corp.,
Electromotive Division / Diesel Division) 82
Plymouth Locomotive Works83
H. K. Porter Company107
Vulcan Iron Works112
Whitcomb Locomotive Company113
Unknowns, Homebuilds, and Miscellaneous Units . 122
FOREWORD
The term "critter", as applied to locomotives, was originated by railfan, photographer, and locomotive historian Thomas Lawson of Birmingham, AL. Tom used it to refer to a "rigid frame, two- or three-axle internal combustion locomotive". In today's world, that would severely limit critters to not much more than some GE 25- and 35-tonners, and Plymouth J and M series locomotives. Therefore, the word is now used by most rail-fans (myself included) to refer to any industrial size locomotive, whether it be rigid frame or double-trucked. Because of this, I've been accused by Tom of inflating what the term "critter" currently encompasses, which is true. However, it just seems more useful employed in this manner for today's railfans. For the purposes of this book, "critter" is defined as an industrial size locomotive that works in industry, on shortline, or on terminal type railroad operations. That eliminates SW1s, Sts, and other "railroad-size" locomotives that work inside the fences of industry. Those are covered in Morning Sun Books' Industrial Railroading series, also by this author.
Critters are becoming quite rare. They are being phased out by automatic material handling, rubber-tired equipment, and larger, railroad-size locomotives needed to handle larger railway equipment. In that respect, we've been unable to locate any additional photos of locomotives built by the Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC) or Mack Trucks, Inc. Thus, the two chapters devoted to them had to be eliminated from Railroad Critters in Color Volume 4.
As stated in previous volumes, this book is not meant to be a comprehensive list of locomotive builders or models, or a tally of those built. It's also not about showing one of each model ever produced by a builder. To attempt to do that would be an impossible task, as most minority builders would build any locomotive to a customer's specifications. "Minority locomotive builders" are builders other than the major manufacturers such as Alco, EMD, Baldwin, Lima, etc. They were companies like Plymouth (even though they built over 7,000 units in 65 years), Whitcomb, Davenport, Brookville, Midwest, and Burton. And while General Electric and Plymouth, as well as others, offered catalogs showing their products, it's a well-known fact that variation was often the rule, not the exception.
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