Author Name: Lloyd E. Stagner
Title: Union Pacific Motive Power in Transition 1936-1960
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: SE118
The period from 1936 to 1960 was the greatest change in motive power to occur on the Union Pacific. The first of UP's super steam locomotives was produced in 1936, with the last of these 175 engines being erected in 1944. Although the Union Pacific had pioneered the application of the diesel engine to passenger service in 1934, it was slow to accept freight diesel locomotives by not putting them into general freight service until late 1947. Thanks to the saving of UP correspondence between the railroad's headquarters in Omaha and the company's board of directors and executive committee in New York City, the papers provide insight into what was a popular saying: What Omaha proposed, New York disposed. For those interested in the why's and how's of UP's behind-the-scenes reasoning as to why the purchase of new steam, diesel and gas-turbine locomotives this book is offered to explain the story. Retail $19.95.
Price = 16.00 USD
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