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Trains Magazine 1951 August Little Lines Around Washington Shay Photo section
Trains Magazine 1951 August Little Lines Around Washington
60 Pages
Cover photo. By Bruce Owen Nett.- New York Central's Commodore Vanderbilt gets a scrubbing in the1
road's car washers along New York's Harlem River.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By the editors.6
Steam cools your train. By Wallace W. Abbey.-14
A locomotive's steam generators must work harder in summer than in winter, for they keep the train cool and comfortable.
Little lines around Washington. By E. John Long.--18
The growing problem of what to do with the capital city's daily commuter traffic might partly be dispelled by these small railroads.
The song of the Shay. By W. H. Hutchinson.--22
The Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe carries on a bustling lumber business with its two Shays, a flat car and a homemade caboose.
Photo section. Railroads in review. -27
Grand Trunk Western freight at Ravenna, Mich., 27; Delaware & Hudson 4-4-0, 28; Chicago & Illinois Midland 4-4-0, 28; St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County switcher, 29; Northern Pacific extra, 29; Reading express, 30; Western Pacific division point, 34; CB&Q freight at Sheridan, Wyo., 34; Katy-Frisco Texas Special, 35; Santa Fe Chief loads at Chicago, 36; El Paso & Southwestern excursion, 36; New York, Ontario & Western freight, 37; Baltimore & Ohio Cincinnatian, 37.
The day coach. By David P. Morgan.--38
The day coach revived passenger traffic in the 1930's and still has a bright future.
EMD delivers its 10,000th unit
When Matthias W. Baldwin outshopped the first locomotive from his newly formed Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1832, railroading in the United States was in its infancy. Although the new transportation industry grew by leaps and bounds, it was 561/2 years before the Baldwin company turned out its 10,000th locomotive in June 1889.
In 1936, there were 130 diesel-driven locomotives rolling on the country's railroads, some in passenger service but most of them in switching service. The Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, which had brought out the first diesel-powered passenger locomotive as an integral part of the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr in 1934, had assembled many of those 130 diesels, but now EMD decided to go into the business in a big way. It erected a plant at La Grange, Ill., and set about building diesel locomotives from the ground up, rather than merely assembling them from parts furnished by other manufacturers.
Last June 14, just a few days more than 15 years after the first completely EMD-built locomotive (a 600 h.p. switcher for the Santa Fe) left the plant, EMD locomotive No. 10,000 was delivered to the Wabash Railroad. It was a 2250 h.p. E-8, Wabash No. 1009.
It was truly a significant occasion. Not only had Electro-Motive built 10,000 units in 15 years, it had also sold its product to a railroad industry that first had to be shown what the new type of motive power could do. It wasn't a question of getting in on the ground floor in a growing new industry, but one of upsetting tradition in an industry that was more than 100 years
old. It was a job of salesmanship as well as one of production.
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