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Diesel Era Magazine 1998 January Feb Union Pacific’s Fast Forties GTW GP38
Diesel Era Magazine 1998 January February Union Pacifics Fast Forties
67 pages
features
10 Milwaukee Road's Unique SDL39sWarren L. Calloway
In shaky financial condition and unable to upgrade the many miles of granger rail to allow the operation of heavy modern diesels, Milwaukee Road turned to EMD for a cheaper solution, and the SDL39 was born.
18 Laurinburg & SouthernDiesel Era staff
An early convert to the diesel, this 28-mile North Carolina short line has owned a large fleet of locomotives not only to service its own customers, but also to handle
freight on a host of subsidiary lines it operated, as well as for leasing to off-line industries.
27 Union Pacific's "Fast Forties"Don Strack
To maintain its competitive edge in the mid- to late 1970s, this western carrier operated a fleet of SD40-2s with high-speed gearing. To denote their 80 mph gearing, they carried 8000-series numbers and soon became known as the Fast Forties.
36 LMX B39-8EsPaul K. Withers
With more than 10 years of service behind them, the LMX B39-8Es
- veterans of high-speed freight service - have performed up to General Electric's expectations, but they failed to win additional locomotive orders from their operator, Burlington Northern, as GE had hoped.
43 Dieselization of the Georgia RailroadRobert Hanson
Take an in-depth look at how one Southeastern carrier and its subsidiaries, Atlanta & West Point Railroad and the Western Railway of Alabama, went about justifying the cost of dieselizing operations.
52 Grand Trunk Western GP38sThomas F. Bowers
Through the purchase of new and secondhand GP38s and addition of GP38s through merger, this Canadian subsidiary has assembled a fleet of 118 units representing all three variations of the model - GP38, GP38AC, and GP38-2.
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