The Diesel That Did It: General Motors' FT Locomotive
Hardcover
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By Wallace W. Abbey, Kevin P. Keefe (Editor), Martha A. Miller (Editor), Greg McDonnell (Contribution by)
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The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary dieselelectric locomotive, the FT.
As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the precipice of railroad transformation. 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. Their creation, the FT, was a dieselelectric, semistreamlined freight engine. The FT would...
As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the precipice of railroad transformation. 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. Their creation, the FT, was a dieselelectric, semistreamlined freight engine. The FT would...






















