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Diesel Locomotives The First 50 Years Railroad Reference Series #10 Marre SC
Diesel Locomotives The First 50 Years Railroad Reference Series #10 By Louis A. Marre A Guide to Diesels Built Before 1972
Copyright 1995
Soft Cover
479 Pages, Indexed
"It's a GP7!"
"No, it's a GP9. Look here on page 46."
Diesel locomotives built nowadays differ in their details, but most of them follow the same basic design - a 16-cylinder engine and either four or six axles underneath.
How did that design evolve? What were the first diesels like? What about the designs that didn't endure? How do you distinguish one from another? Diesel expert Louis A. Marre traces the history of diesel locomotives in North America from General Electric's unsuccessful trio of 1918 to the end of 1971 - the end of the "first generation" and the introduction of Electro-Motive's Dash 2 line. Diesel Locomotives: The First 50 Years includes production totals, specifications, and a wealth of photographs elucidating the differences among the variety of diesels that flourished from the 1920s to the 1970s.
CONTENTS
Preface 3
Bibliography 4
Location of Principal Components 6
Diesel Wheel Arrangements 8
Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation . 10
General Electric Company 137
American Locomotive Company 205
Baldwin Locomotive Works 288
Fairbanks-Morse 330
Lima-Hamilton 355
Small Builders 361
Locomotives Built in Railroad Shops429
Repowered Locomotives 433
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