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Diesel that Did It, The Presented by Southern Railway System Electro Motive Div.
Diesel that Did It, The Presented by Southern Railway System Electro Motive Div.
Presented by Southern Railway System Electro Motive Division, General Motors National Museum of Transport
Soft Cover
8 Pages
Copyright 1960 February
Reprinted from Trains Magazine
The Story of the 83,764-mile test that doomed steam.
1 SUPPOSE you were asked this question: What single locomotive constructed since 1900 has had the greatest impact upon U. S. railroading? Surely your answer would have to be Electro-Motive No. 103, the 193- foot, 900,000-pound, 5400-horsepower machine spread across these pages. When the 103 eased through the gates of her La Grange ( Ill.) birthplace in November 1939, diesel-electric road freight motive power was only a theory, and by her builder's own admission this dark green, yellow- striped locomotive was an experiment. Eleven months and 83,764 miles later steam's century-old grip on the freight train had been permanently broken and No. 103 was the prototype for the world's first standardized, mass-produced line of diesel freight locomotives. There is no equal in the annals of railroading for such a swift closing of the gap between fancy and fact.
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