The diesel that did it : general motors' FT locomotive / Wallace W. Abbey, edited by Kevin P. Keefe and Martha Abbey Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbey, Wallace W., author.

Contributor:

Keefe, Kevin P., editor.

Miller, Martha A., editor.

Series:

Railroads Past and Present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electro-diesel locomotives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary diesel-electric locomotive, the FT.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253062802

0253062802

9780253062796

0253062799

OCLC:

1333083189