The complete history of the world’ s foremost locomotive builders.
With roots stretching back to the turn of the twentieth century, General Electric and Electro-Motive have designed some of the most iconic locomotives in the history of North American railroading. Now, for the first time, acclaimed rail author Brian Solomon’ s landmark histories of these manufacturers’ North American machines (GE Locomotives, 2003, and EMD Locomotives, 2006) are available in a single photo-packed volume. In GE and EMD Locomotives: The Illustrated History, nearly 400 rare photographs (more than 300 of them in color) are accompanied by thorough histories of the two manufacturers, beginning with their earliest efforts in the 1890s and 1930s, respectively. Solomon brings the story up to date with afterwords detailing such recent developments as GE’ s revolutionary Evolution locomotives and EMD’ s SD70ACe and SD70M-2. From General Electric’ s electrical legends— the Pennsylvania Railroad’ s E44s, Amtrak’ s E60s, and Milwaukee Road’ s “ Little Joes” — to EMD’ s mid-century F units, workhorse GP and SD locomotives, and Dash series, all the way through to the rivals’ most cutting-edge modern “ green” designs, GE and EMD Locomotives: The Illustrated History leaves nothing unexamined in the important histories of these industrial giants and the competition that continues to drive them forward.
- ISBN10 1627883975
- ISBN13 9781627883979
- Publish Date 1 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Voyageur Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 355
- Language English