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General Motors Streamlined Diesel-Electric Locomotives 1930s to the 1950s
General Motors Streamlined Diesel-Electric Locomotives 1930s to the 1950s by James W Kerr
Soft Cover
150 pages
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
Pre-E and F Model Locomotives, with GM engines, some built by outside builders .. 4
E andF Model Locomotives In Alphabetical Order of Railway Operator and
Ascending Numerical Road Nos. 8
Quick Illustrated Reference to the Scarcer E and F Models
EA 23
E1A 10
E2A 142
E3A 11
E4A 86
FTA 51
F2A 17
F5A 77
F7B 40
F9B 33
FL9A 111
INTRODUCTION
Simply stated, the E and F design diesel-electric locomotives were the world's greatest influence in locomotive streamlining. Conceived in the later 1930's for economy and efficiency, these locomotives also sported colorful paint schemes representing a new departure in contrast to the older, dark steam locomotives, and fired the flame of the American Dream. Who could not fall in love with the colorful brand-new E units,,back-to-back, pulling a new lightweight, luxury silver streamliner from such places as Chicago and New York to exotic California and Florida, or, Funits in an A-B-B-A combination drumming a freight across the continent? Getting there was the fun, in those those unhurried days, before, the super highway systems and the airlines expansion for the masses. Seeing these trains could make the blood run cold, a feeling today that can be compared only with the full-burn thunderous takeoff of a 747 jetliner, that freezes the attention of everybody, including the most blascaptain. The Funits finest moments were during World War II, delivering the freight, speeding-up the homefront war effort. Nothing will ever replace these major railway monuments.
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