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97303 and 97301 power past Llandre on their way to drop ballast from the seacows on the inclince from Llandre to Borth.
Water leaking out of one of the heads wasn't a good sign at all. Worst case scenario, the head's cracked. Best case scenario, its just the gasket. Luckily, it was just the gasket. Seaview mechanic Andy Caswell digs right in to repair it.
Local call number: Rc10733
Title: Arrival of the Orange Blossom Special train: Plant City, Florida
Date: December 1938
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint; b&w; 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Reference collection
General note: This was the arrival of the first diesel-powered passenger train in the Southeast.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33349
General Motors (GM), through its Electro-Motive Division (EMD), was the single most important manufacturer of diesel locomotives and the primary catalyst for the widespread conversion from steam to diesel power in North America. This ad from 1951 came at the height of this transition, during EMD's period of market dominance.
Before GM's involvement, early diesel-electric locomotives were expensive, unreliable, and mostly relegated to specialized applications like yard switching. The railroad industry was dominated by a handful of established steam locomotive builders. By applying automotive-style mass production and standardization, EMD was able to build a superior, lower-cost product that outcompeted the traditional manufacturers.
In contrast to the custom-built steam engines, EMD produced a standardized line of versatile locomotives that could be mass-produced with interchangeable parts. EMD's massive factory in LaGrange, Illinois could produce up to five locomotives per day during its peak. It manufactured most of its own components, from the diesel engine itself to the traction motors. EMD didn't just sell locomotives; it sold a complete operational system. This included a field-service network, financing plans, and training programs to help railroad personnel operate and maintain the new technology.
EMD did not invent the diesel-electric locomotive, but its technological and marketing prowess was the engine behind the industry-wide conversion. The transition picked up speed in the 1940s and 1950s, largely thanks to EMD's breakthroughs.
"The Rise and Fall of Electro-Motive Diesel" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN54TVGT6xI
[Other Sources: "Diesel Locomotives of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and Today" by Adam Burns at American-Rails.com, and "Diesel-Electric Locomotive" at UP.com]
Class 67 Diesel Locomotive No 67006 (Royal Sovreign) heads a rake of Pullman coaches through Bletchley station on 14th April 2012. On the rear is No. 67026 (Diamond Jubilee). Photograph taken with a Pentax K-5 using an SMC Pentax-F 80-200mm f4.7/5.6 zoom lens.
Paxman (of Colchester) 12TPM engines powered all the World War 2 British-built diesel engined tank landing craft which played a major role in the Normandy landings.
3,533 TPMs were built before hostilities ceased: 2,227 by Paxman at Colchester and 1,306 at Renault's British factory at Western Avenue, Park Royal, London W3.
At the end of WW2, Renault produced a brochure illustrating their achievement from which this selection of photographs is reproduced
More here www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/paxeng34.htm
This is a 1966 GM36 Diesel Locomotive and has the Commonwealth Railways on the side still, this was parked out of the way near other locos. These were built by Clyde Engineering in Sydney.
Taken at Dimboola, Victoria in 2014.
I've caught the Cross Country train from Ipswich to Birmingham and it seems to take forever. How much longer would Exeter to Birmingham take? And I don't want to think about sitting on this train all the way to Edinburgh!
(Východní Jáva/Jawa Timur)
Jednou z posledních pravidelně nasazovaných lokomotiv řady BB301 Indonéské železnice, které pamatují počátky její motorizace, je stroj BB301.25 (po novu značený 6507) vyrobený roku 1965 ve spolupráci firem Fried Krupp a Krauss-Maffei. Lokomotiva je nasazována depem Madiun pro přetahy souprav na vlečku místního petrochemického závodu
9 engines hooked together heading east. They will be used as helpers to climb over the Blue Mountains on west bound freight trains.
Each locomotive of this style produces aprox 4300 HP. That totals up to 38,700 HP & some of the freights that cross over the Blues they will use all 9 in one train. Three in the front five in the middle and one one the end.
97302 (with 97303 at the other end) sits at Barmouth having arrived with the 20:09 Machynlleth Carriage Sidings structure gauging train which ran as far north as Harlech before returning south, and onwards to Derby.