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Contemporary Diesel Spotter’s Guide, The by Louis Marre & Paul Withers 2000 edi
Contemporary Diesel Spotters Guide, The by Louis A Marre & Paul K Withers
Soft Cover
224 pages
Copyright 2000
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 2
Foreword3
Preface to the Year 2000 Edition 4
General Motors Corp., Electro-Motive Division, GM Locomotive Group, and General Motors Diesel Division (Canada)5
General Electric Transportation Systems 121
Montreal Locomotive Works and Bombardier Inc. 199
Morrison-Knudsen Co., MK Rail, Motive Power Industries, and Boise Locomotive Co.210
Appendix A - Trucks 216
Appendix B - Generator/Traction Motor Type, Major Dimensions, and Page Index222
FOREWORD
About 30 years ago, a college student with a meager but growing collection of maybe a dozen railroad books found a thread running through them. They did a good job of recounting railroad history and the heyday of steam engines, but fell flat, really flat, when it came to interpreting or even identifying North American diesel locomotives.
Out along the railroad, that student found that Alcos were alive, well, and smoking on the Lehigh Valley, the legacy of Baldwin was burbling everywhere on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, and Baltimore & Ohio was too poor to retire its collection of classy Electro-Motive F units. Canadian mutations of otherwise-familiar switchers appeared, Fairbanks-Morse Baby Trainmasters were drumming away on the Milwaukee Road, and as for Union Pacific - it was to locomotives what Australia is to animal species, a place where things showed up that nobody saw anywhere else in the known world. Amtrak? It was still in the future, and railfans, who were busy chasing the last Erie Lackawanna E units and Santa Fe Warbonnet Fs, wondered if passenger railroading would survive at all into the 1970s and beyond.
How to sort out all those diesels came much more easily to the student, who was me, after I picked up a copy of the original Diesel Spotter's Guide. The Guide, in various evolving forms and by the hand of various authors or teams of authors, has been in production continuously since then. Lou Marre, known for books on the diesels of the Rock Island and Kansas City Southern railroads, has contributed to, collaborated in, or authored all of them. Paul Withers, publisher of Diesel Era magazine and Withers Publishing books, has spent more than a decade chronicling the changes in contemporary locomotive design as well as diesel-locomotive history. Together, they've formed a team with complementing skills to bring the story up to date once again. Their work, in the words of the original Guide, is highly unlikely to be confused with anything else. *
Dan Cupper Managing editor, Diesel Era magazine
Contemporary Diesel Spotters Guide, The by Louis A Marre & Paul K Withers
Soft Cover
224 pages
Copyright 2000
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 2
Foreword3
Preface to the Year 2000 Edition 4
General Motors Corp., Electro-Motive Division, GM Locomotive Group, and General Motors Diesel Division (Canada)5
General Electric Transportation Systems 121
Montreal Locomotive Works and Bombardier Inc. 199
Morrison-Knudsen Co., MK Rail, Motive Power Industries, and Boise Locomotive Co.210
Appendix A - Trucks 216
Appendix B - Generator/Traction Motor Type, Major Dimensions, and Page Index222
FOREWORD
About 30 years ago, a college student with a meager but growing collection of maybe a dozen railroad books found a thread running through them. They did a good job of recounting railroad history and the heyday of steam engines, but fell flat, really flat, when it came to interpreting or even identifying North American diesel locomotives.
Out along the railroad, that student found that Alcos were alive, well, and smoking on the Lehigh Valley, the legacy of Baldwin was burbling everywhere on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, and Baltimore & Ohio was too poor to retire its collection of classy Electro-Motive F units. Canadian mutations of otherwise-familiar switchers appeared, Fairbanks-Morse Baby Trainmasters were drumming away on the Milwaukee Road, and as for Union Pacific - it was to locomotives what Australia is to animal species, a place where things showed up that nobody saw anywhere else in the known world. Amtrak? It was still in the future, and railfans, who were busy chasing the last Erie Lackawanna E units and Santa Fe Warbonnet Fs, wondered if passenger railroading would survive at all into the 1970s and beyond.
How to sort out all those diesels came much more easily to the student, who was me, after I picked up a copy of the original Diesel Spotter's Guide. The Guide, in various evolving forms and by the hand of various authors or teams of authors, has been in production continuously since then. Lou Marre, known for books on the diesels of the Rock Island and Kansas City Southern railroads, has contributed to, collaborated in, or authored all of them. Paul Withers, publisher of Diesel Era magazine and Withers Publishing books, has spent more than a decade chronicling the changes in contemporary locomotive design as well as diesel-locomotive history. Together, they've formed a team with complementing skills to bring the story up to date once again. Their work, in the words of the original Guide, is highly unlikely to be confused with anything else. *
Dan Cupper Managing editor, Diesel Era magazine
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