The Diesel That Did It: General Motors' FT Locomotive
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.As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the…
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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.As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the precipice of railroad transformation. Their creation, the FT, was a diesel-electric, semi-streamlined freight engine. In an obscure factory in La Grange, Illinois, a group of gifted engineers and designers were planning a revolution that would shake railroading to its foundations and eventually put the steam locomotive out of business.
Abbey's The Diesel That Did It is the story of a revolution. The FT would establish a new standard for reliability, flexibility, and cost, but its arrival unsettled many railroad employees and gave fresh ammunition to their labor unions, who believed that it threatened a century-old culture.Wallace W. He explores how EMC (and its successor Electro-Motive Division of General
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