The Diesel That Did It: General Motors' FT Locomotive

The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendarydiesel-electric 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 diesel-electric, semi-streamlined freight engine. The FT would ...