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Trains Magazine Special Issue Locomotive Annual 2022 Dash 8 Stripes F7s GP30s
Trains Magazine Special Issue Locomotive Annual 2022 Dash 8
On the cover, Santa Fe Dash 8-40BW 535 leads a westbound freight on Cajon Pass. See page 58 Greg McDonnell
6 Editor's Notebook
Greg McDonnell
8 Dancing for a diesel Kevin P. Keefe
10 Motive power review
Lean times: new sales of six-motor freight locomotives stall, rebuilds, modernizations, and passenger power save the day. Chris Gass
16 Big Six by the numbers
Our annual census of the Big Six locomotive fleets, tabulating all 25,394 locomotives and tracking trends
18 What's new for '62?
Deciphering what's doing these days in dieseldom. Revisiting TRAINS Magazine's look at the locomotive business in 1962, first published in January 1962. David P. Morgan
22 EMD 100
Celebrating a legendary locomotive-building centenarian. From Zephyrs to FTs to ACes, the 100th anniversary of Electro-Motive is something to celebrate. There oughta be a party!
Greg McDonnell
30 Of Dixie Flyers, Yellow Jackets, and GP3Os
Motive power evolution on Louisville & Nashville, the "Dixie Line." An L&N expert looks at the shift from steam to two generations of diesel power.
Ron Flanary
40 1984
A Centennial odyssey
Union Pacific's legendary EMD DDA4OX locomotives live up to the anthemic vow: "no retreat, no surrender." A last hurrah for the diesels that were bigger, heavier, and faster than Big Boy. "There had never been a locomotive like this one. There would also never be another."
Ted Benson
58 General Electric:
A prophecy fulfilled
TRAINS magazine's 40th annual Motive Power Survey examined GE's rising market share and the development of the microprocessor-minded Dash 8 that would help secure the company's lead. First published in TRAINS in November 1988.
Greg McDonnell
68 Dash 8: The diesel that dethroned EMD
Updating the story of GE's Dash 8 model series, from its groundbreaking beginnings to a contemporary head count of survivors. Steve Gerbracht, Greg McDonnell
78 Chile!
General Motors Diesel NF210s built in London, Ont., for Canadian National's narrow-gauge operation in Newfoundland find new careers in the Chilean desert. Doug Koontz
86 A family tradition
Lambton Diesel Specialists bring generations of skill to the locomotive trade.
Steve Bradley
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