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Atlantic Coast Line The Diesel Years by Walter Calloway w/ dust jacket
Atlantic Coast Line The Diesel Years
Warren L. Calloway
Hard Cover With Dust Jacket
192 Pages
Copyright 1993 FIRST PRINTING
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.2
Dedication.3
Atlantic Coast Line Dieselization.5
Chapter One - Motive Power History. 9
Chapter Two Switchers.17
Chapter Three - EMD Freight Cab Units. 37
Chapter Four - Dual Service Cab Units. 62
Chapter Five - Early EMD Road Switchers .. 74
Chapter Six - EMC E3 and E6 Passenger Units. 88
Chapter Seven - EMD E7 and E8 Passenger Units .. 108
Chapter Eight - EMD Late B-B Road Switchers. 127
Chapter Nine - EMD Late C-C Road Switchers. 136
Chapter Ten - GE Road Switchers .. 145
Chapter Eleven - ALCo Road Switchers. 153
Chapter Twelve - Subsidiary Lines .. 161
Appendix One - Paint Schemes. 170
Appendix Two - Dispositions. 182
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad entered the diesel era conservatively, by buying a pair of Electro-Motive passenger locomotives in 1938 for its New York-Miami Champion streamliner. ACL had just bought a dozen handsome, modern Baldwin 4-8-4 steam engines and was still committed to steam.
But within five years, the railroad had acquired more than 100 additional diesels for every type of service - switchers and more passenger units, and, even with wartime restrictions, sets of FT freight locomotives.
After the war, ACL moved steadily to retire steam. The road had bought a few American Locomotive Co. and Baldwin switchers, but stuck to reliable Electro-Motive Division products for the next 15 years. Armies of F units and Geeps began to arrive.
There was nothing conservative about the colors in which all of these locomotives were painted - royal purple and aluminum, which it had first used on its New York-Miami streamliners. Not only did these colors bring attention to the road's diesels, but they also came to symbolize the 5,700-mile-long southeastern carrier itself.
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