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Preface | xi | |
0NE | The Day Coach in the Wooden Era: 1830 to 1910 | 2 |
Representative Cars | 50 | |
TWO | The Day Coach: Era of the Metal Car | 116 |
THREE | First-Class Travel: Sleeping Cars | 202 |
FOUR | First-Class Travel: Parlor, Dining, and Private Cars | 286 |
Notes to Chapters One through Four | xv | |
FIVE | Passenger Car Accommodations: From Decoration to Vestibules | 372 |
SIX | Head-End Cars: Baggage Express, Combination, Emigrant, and Mail Cars | 452 |
SEVEN | Running Gears | 496 |
EIGHT | Self-Propelled Cars and Motor Trains | 578 |
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Car Designers and Builders | 647 | |
Appendix B: Statistics | 657 | |
Appendix C: American Railroad Car Chronology | 661 | |
Notes to Chapters Five through Eight | 665 | |
Bibliography | 676 | |
Index | 680 |
Back Cover: Burlington Northern F-7 diesel 716 and GP-7 diesel 1532 were awaiting their next freight assignments at Grand Forks, North Dakota, in February 1979. Photo by Steve Glischinski. | Front Cover: Burlington Northern freight train 132 created a flurry while traversing a snow-packed grade crossing at Harwood, North Dakota, February 18, 1979. Photo by Steve Glischinski. |
Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Foreword 9 lntroduetion 15 Chapter 1: Hopping Freights and Other Adventures Almost Killed by the Silver Comet/ C'mon Gang, Let's Go Get Em!/ A Trip to Winder/ A Stop in Virginia/ I Try To Hire On The Southern Railway 43 Chapter 2: Grand Forks, North Dakota Green Block/ My First Trip as a Brakeman/ A Guilty Conscience in Walhalla/ Asleep in the Locomotive/ Jumping for My Life/ My Stints As Engineer/ The Crookston Switch 71 Chapter 3: Furloughed Winter in Minot/ A Friendly Invitation in Alliance Turns Bad/ The Race at Crawford Curve/ The 39 Dodge/ A Trip with the Milwaukee Queen/ My First (And Last) Trip As A Conductor/ 103 Chapter 4: Back to Grand Forks A Locomotive Burns in Edmore, North Dakota/ Venison Steaks and the Blizzard Party/ Boxing in the Locomotive/ Chicken/ Manitoba Junction Revisited/ Stick to the Switchlist!/ Lunch On The 124/ Battle of the Beaters 133 Chapter 5: A Promotion to Trainmaster Furloughed Again/ The Assessment Center for Future Trainmasters/ The Legend of Pisser Bill/ Drunk and Disorderly!/ The DNM (Denver to Memphis) Must Leave On Time!/ The End of The Track | Railroading in the Days of the Caboose copyright 2004 by William J. Brotherton South Platte Press digest size, 159 pages, adhesive binding Burlington Northern Adventures relate the personal experiences of the author, William J. Brotherton, who went "railroading" as a brakeman, conductor and trainmaster for the Burlington Northern Railroad system during the 1979-1982 period. Through his many interesting short stories, Brotherton illustrates what it was like to work for a major railroad company before branch lines, vintage diesel locomotives and cabooses were phased out. His accounts show what has changed within the railroad industry since then−and what has not. Brotherton, who grew up around trains in Georgia, takes the reader along on his personal encounter with a railroader's life in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Colorado. |
back cover: BN F9A's #818, #812 and #808 were going over Beaver Falls when the author took this photo in 1981. | cover photo: Southbound BNR #2214 (GP30) & #2516 (GP35) are crossing Beaver Creek Falls, photo by Corwin Doeksen |
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. |
BACK COVER TOP: PB&NE SW900m #50 is shoving hopper cars past the oil storage tanks at Iron Hill in late winter 1983. These tanks were built as a consequence of the 1970's oil embargo. Photo by Russell W. Yeakel. BACK COVER BOTTOM: Delaware & Hudson's BS-1 is heading west with a short train of steel ingots and beams at Florence Interlocking in March 1984; empties would return on SB-4. This Conrail main line formerly belonged to the Lehigh Valley, as did GP38-2's #7325 and 7319. Jim Kerner. | FRONT COVER TOP RIGHT On January 27, 1973, slag from the blast furnaces is dumped out of the cinder pots onto the slag pile adjacent to Route 412 near Hellertown. Kodachrome by Mike Bednar. FRONT COVER CENTER: Above the Beam Yard, Lehigh Valley Hammerhead #211 and RS3 #212 are pulling 70 ore loads on track 3 at Florence on April 1, 1975. Willard Blocker is making a run for the hill -- what a sound! The photographer had better get himself over to the crossover switches so he can close up behind the ore drag; FFW-1 is coming fast on the main and can't be held up! Kodachrome by Mike Bednar. FRONT COVER BOTTOM LEFT: In this view from the Florence Yard office on July 3, 1972, NW2 #23 is working a coke train to the Middle Yard with the rolling mills looming in the background. Though CNJ and Penn Central did not serve the plant directly, they each were kept busy hauling Bethlehem Steel inbound and outbound loads via interchange with LV and Reading. Kodachrome by Mike Bednar. |