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| Back: On a hazy summer day in 1978, a trio of B&O Geeps hustle a freight through the Potomac Valley alongside the ruins of the C&O Canal. In a few minutes, the diesels will clatter through the interlocking plant at Point of Rocks, Maryland. (Mark Reutter) | Cover: Restored Atlantic Coast Line No. 501 poses in December 1999 at its new home at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. The 2,000-hp E-3 unit debuted exactly 60 years earlier on the streamlined Champions placed in service between New York and Miami. (Jim Wrinn) |
| The Continued Neglect of the Diesel Locomotive By MAURY KLEIN Why so little scholarly attention? 6 The Revolutionary By MARK REUTTER Rudolf Diesel and the theory that shook the world 16 Business Strategies and Diesel Development By ALBERT J. CHURELLA Dueling philosophies in the erecting halls 22 Building a Better Iron Horse By MARK REUTTER Reinventing the passenger train for speed and profit 38 Industrial Design Speeds Forward By JEFFREY L. MEIKLE Streamlining and the revolution in design 62 Symbol of Progress By JOHN GRUBER Images of a futuristic age of trains 73 Railroads and the War By WALLACE W. ABBEY Steam and diesel roll up their sleeves 81 Culture Clash: Diesel vs. Tradition By ROBERT ALDAG Empowering management and standardizing labor 89 Getting to Know Her By DON L. HOFSOMMER Three railroads learn to like the diesel 100 Covered Wagons and Geeps By J. PARKER LAMB A parade of first-generation growlers 110 Learning from America? By COLIN DIVALL Technology transfer is not automatic 124 Diesel Railcar: A Look Ahead By WILLIAM D. MIDDLETON The rise, fall, and return of the RDC 143 Afterword: The Enduring Diesel By JAMES L. LARSON Will it dominate the next 50 years? 155 Worth Reading 158 End Marker 160 | EDITOR'S SEATBOX This millennium special edition of Railroad History is devoted to the "machine that saved the railroads." The switch from smoke and reciprocating rods to oil and diesel-electric traction amounted to the greatest change in railroading in the twentieth century. Yet despite the importance and inherent drama of the subject, much of the writing about the diesel has been narrowly technical or submerged in elegiac accounts of the demise of steam power. As Maury Klein points out, the context of dieselization has been neglected. The aim of the following pages is to bring out the context by bringing together leading scholars and experts from various fields. Most of the articles here originated from a symposium held at the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library on April 23-24, 1999, "Railroad Revolution: How the Diesel Locomotive Changed America." The symposium was conducted at the new home of the Barriger Library at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Papers from the symposium have been edited, amplified, and supplemented with source documents, photographs, and extensive bibliographic references, mostly centering on the pivotal years of 1930-1960. Many people have helped make this issue possible. They include Gregory P. Ames, curator of the Barriger Library; John N. Hoover, director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis; and John P. Mulderig, a financial analyst at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In addition, the issue has benefitted greatly from the talents of R&LHS members John Gruber and J. Parker Lamb, whose contributions are highlighted in two special photo inserts. I would further like to thank Cornelius W. Hauck, William F. Howes, Jr., and James L. Larson－plus the crack production team of Dian Post and Carolina R. Lofgren－for their support and hard work. This "extra run" of RRH marks the 79th year of publication of a journal that began before the first diesel locomotive, Jersey Central No. 1000, trundled forth on the Hudson River docks in 1925. Our next regular issue, No. 182, will appear, per timecard, in July. |
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