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D-Day on the Western Pacific by Virgil Staff Railroad decision to dieselize w/DJ
D-Day on the Western Pacific by Virgil Staff hard cover w/ dust jacket
D-Day on the Western Pacific A Railroads Decision to Dieselize Special 81
Virgil Staff
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
224 Pages
Copyright 1982
Contents
Preface 7
1 Enter the Diesel 10
2 Was the GM-103 Really That Great? 13
3 Knuckle Busters or Big Boys!20
4 Eight Alcos or Ten Steamers 23
5 Power Shortages and World War II 25
CZThat Legendary Streamliner31
6 CZ In; Steam Out 37
7 The Diesel Makes Its Impact 55
Grooming the WP's Iron Horses 65
8 Dynamic Brakes on the FT 73
9 The Decline of Availability 75
10 How Much Cana Loco Lug? 77
11 Water and Other Problems 83
12 The Faster Handling of Trains96
13 Maintenance and Fuel Ratings 104
14 A Matter of Oil 106
15 The Death of Steam109
16 The RDC Experiment 115
People Make a Railroad 119
17 The Navy Grows Old 122
18 How Much Power is Required? 127
WP Weathers the Winter 133
19 The Search for Replacement Power138
20 Getting a Move On 149
21 TOFC and How to Drag 154
22 The Krauss-Maffei 158
23 Oroville, Sacramento or Stockton? 162
24 Higher and Higher Horsepower169
The Canyon181
25 Some Comparisons 186
26 The Perlman-Flannery Years 191
Illustrated Rosters 200
Inside dust jacket
IT STARTED, modestly enough, with an Elec-tro-Motive switcher in 1939. The first three FT freight units came in 1941-42. For the Western Pacific, the die was cast: the railroad was on the road to dieselization.
In this book you will see a railroad the way you've never seen one before: from the inside, as you stand beside Ed Cuyler and his colleagues as they wrestle with man and nature to move the merchandise. In his well-documented text, Virgil Staff follows the Operating Department for some 40 years to see why the WP purchased and employed power the way it did.
You will see the final hurrah for steam during World War II; assault the Canyon with EMD, Alco, FM and GE test units; watch as changing times dictate changing combinations of power; witness the birth and death of the California Zephyr and its F-3 and FP-7 units; glimpse the RDC experiment; examine the WP's locomotive facilities and meet the men who ran the trains.
This work is technically definitive on one railroad's approach to motive power and we predict it will become a standard casebook for professional railroadersas well as a great armchair book for railfans. It is with pride that Interurban Press introduces you to D-Day on the Western Pacific, Special 81.
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