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Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. Many California railroads were organized, not to become a large railroad, but to simply serve some local purpose. Hauling lumber or minerals or sugar beets required rail services best provided by a focused, local organization. What is a short line' Basically a smaller railroad that operates limited mileage in a single region or… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. This is the companion volume to Interurban Electric Locomotive: From Baldwin-Westinghouse addressing the competing General Electric product. GE and BLW-Westinghouse were direct competitors in the sale of electric freight locomotives to the interurban railway industry-an economic segment that was essentially dead and gone by the onset of World War II. Even though the… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. Baldwin switchers and Road-Switchers that operated on the Southern Pacific, T&NO and Cotton Belt. Demonstrators (including Shark-noses!) illustrated in detail. Contents: Ch. 1: Introduction, pp. 3-15, Ch. 2: The VO-660 Switchers, pp. 16-19, Ch. 3: The VO-1000 Switchers, pp. 20-37, Ch. 4: Postwar 1000-horsepower Switchers, pp. 38-43, Ch. 5: Thin-Frame S-12 Switchers, pp.… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. In the era of diesel locomotives, the railroad industry had been demanding a quantum leap in locomotive technology. Southern Pacific and Union Pacific spent millions of dollars, essentially to drive home the point to the locomotive builders that their current products were inadequate for current conditions. The EMD engineering team went back to… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. This volume will detail the freight diesel locomotives not covered in the previous volumes of Shade Tree's series of books on Southern Pacific's diesel locomotive roster. This volume will have color covers and all B&W images inside. Contents: Introduction, pp. 3-7, SD35, Original and 1965 Numbers, pp. 8-27, SD35, Upgrades and Switchers, pp.… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. This book is about the 334 General Electric 'U-boats' from the U-25B and U50 through U33C locomotives owned by the Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt railroads. Includes system-wide action and portrait photography during the brief time during the 1960s and 1970s when U-series diesels worked everywhere on the Southern Pacific. Includes 180 B&W… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. Between 1947 and 1959, dieselization on the Southern Pacific followed a predictable pattern. Order locomotives from the diesel builders similar to the other builder's early diesels but easier to maintain. Competition from the Santa Fe and truckers caused a re-thinking of this pattern. The SP needed to move trains quickly or be left… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. Lower price! This book completes the discussion of Rio Grande diesel locomotives from vols. 1 and 2 (out-of-print). Included are details of Rio Grande steel cabooses, non-Zephyr lightweight passenger cars, new and secondhand diesels since 1983, and a complete list of all Rio Grande diesels sold for further service. Contents: Ch. 1: Rio… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. In January 1975, Southern Pacific took delivery of its last General Electric U33C locomotive, considering this model's dismal maintenance record on the SP, observers could reasonably expect never again to see new GE locomotives on this railroad. Just three years later, however, GE came roaring back with their answer to Electro-Motive's GP40-2, the… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. A comprehensive study in photographs, text, drawings and tables discussing the 189 Electric Locomotive Baldwin-Westinghouse built for interurban, switching and industrial railroads in Canada and the United States between 1896 and 1937. Not all electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse are illustrated in this book. Only those that were built for interurban electric railways… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. This book is a picture history of the more than 400 diesels of Southern Pacific's Texas & New Orleans subsidiary, 1941-1965. Includes Black Widow F-units, ALCO PAs and RSD-5s in portraiture and action. Also shown are the T&NO's streamlined Hustler, Sunbeam and Sunset Limited in diesel action. 180 B&W and 2 Color photographs.… Read more about this item

Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. The familiar General Electric 70-tonner was found almost everywhere. With a single engine delivering 600 horsepower and weighing 30 tons less than a standard 600-hp. switcher, its market was aimed at undercapitalized steam powered short lines and industries. Versions were adapted for industrial, export and narrow-gauge service. Over 400 70-tonners were built between… Read more about this item