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The Diesel That Did It General Motors' FT Locomotive.
The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary diesel-electric locomotive, the FT.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Railroads past and present.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Ride with the Ghost of the Santa Fe: The Legacy of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
- 2. Too Many Santa Fes!: Overview of the Railroad That Introduced the FT
- 3. Mechanical Motion, Set to Music: Santa Fe Steam at the Dawn of the FT
- 4. Hamilton, Winton, Kettering: The Evolution of Electro-Motive
- 5. Finally, a Locomotive Prime Mover: The Birth of the Legendary 567 Engine
- 6. The Model F Standard: In the End, Electro-Motive Had to Prove It Could Handle Freight
- 7. A Mikado on the Prairies, a Mallet in the Mountains: The 103 Goes to Work on the Santa Fe Trail
- 8. Lessons Learned from the 103: What the 103 Did, and Did Not Do, on the Santa Fe
- 9. A Big Coming-out Party: Santa Fe Rolls Out Its First Freight Diesel
- 10. Electro-Motive Goes to War: A Locomotive Builder Serves the US Navy
- 11. The Unions and the Laws: The Challenges to Operating E-ciency
- 12. Eighty Locomotives the Hard Way: Building the Fleet One EMD Order at a Time
- 13. A Class by Itself: The Author's Retrospective
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author