Overhaul: A Social History of the Albuquerque Locomotive Repair Shops

by Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint

Overview

In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which were the driving force behind the city's economy for more than seventy years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826362490
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/01/2021
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Flint is the author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada, the coauthor of A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective, and the coeditor of The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (all from UNM Press).

Shirley Cushing Flint is the author of No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, the coauthor of A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective, and the coeditor of The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (all from UNM Press).

Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction

Chapter One. Albuquerque and Western Steam Railroading in the 1870s
Chapter Two. The Requirements of Steam
Chapter Three. Albuquerque and the Locomotive Repair Shops in the Early 1880s
Chapter Four. The Railroad's Immediate and Lasting Impact: The 1880s and 1890s
Chapter Five. Overhauling Steam Locomotives
Chapter Six. Job Specialties
Chapter Seven. The Workforce: 1880-1900
Chapter Eight. Work Schedules and Routines
Chapter Nine. Albuquerque and the Locomotive Repair Shops: 1901-1922
Chapter Ten. The Railroad Shopmen's Strikes of 1893 and 1922
Chapter Eleven. State of the Art: Building the New Shops, 1914-1924
Chapter Twelve. The Heyday of the Shops: 1925-1950
Chapter Thirteen. The End of Steam: 1950s
Chapter Fourteen. Shopwomen and African American and Hispanic Shopmen
Chapter Fifteen. Purchase and Redevelopment of the Rail Yards by the City of Albuquerque
Chapter Sixteen. Conclusion: The Impact of the Shops on Albuquerque and New Mexico
Appendix One. Agreement Between William Hazledine and Franz Huning
Appendix Two. Ethnicity of Shopworkers (Surname Proxy)
Appendix Three. Guide to Steam Locomotive Components

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A welcome addition to railroading lore.—Denver Westerners Roundup

A comprehensive history of the shops.—David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal

A comprehensive history of the shops.—David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal

The importance of the Albuquerque shops to the evolution of the city has long been known, and many authors have mentioned it in passing. However, in this dedicated history, the Flints have taken the story from beginning to end in a carefully researched yet highly readable book. This is a must-have for Albuquerqueans, historians, and railroad buffs.—John Taylor, author of Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862

This impressive work by two of New Mexico's outstanding scholars is thoroughly researched and elegantly written. Overhaul addresses a long-neglected and crucial piece of Albuquerque industrial and cultural history.—Rick Hendricks, coauthor of Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico

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