Author: John F. KirklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Diesel Builders
Author: John F. KirklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Diesel Builders
Author: John F. KirklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Diesel Builders: Baldwin Locomotive Works
Author: John F. KirklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diesel locomotives
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Diesel Builders: American Locomotive Company and Montreal Locomotive Works
Author: John F. KirklandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780916374938
Category : Diesel locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
High-Performance Diesel Builder's Guide
Author: Joe PettittPublisher: S-A Design
ISBN: 9781932494341
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Diesel engines work differently than the gas engines most horsepower enthusiasts are used to, so different performance principles apply. In High-Performance Diesel Builder's Guide, author Joe Pettitt teams up with diesel and turbo industry leader Gale Banks to explain how diesel engines work and how to set them up to make big power. Pettitt uses over 325 color images and covers how to upgrade your intake, exhaust, turbo, and fuel systems to build more boost and make more power. There's even a chapter on nitrous and propane injection. This is the first and only diesel performance book on the market.
Vintage Diesel Power
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1610601203
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This formative period of diesel locomotive evolution is examined with the help of more than 250 modern and period photos depicting passenger, freight, and switching locomotives. Author Brian Solomon covers every prominent manufacturer of the period—including Electro-Motive, Alco, Baldwin, and GE—as well as iconic models like Geeps, E and F units, PAs and FAs, sharknoses, U-boats, and more. The photographs take in the grand geographic and technological breadth of North American railroading and are accompanied by detailed captions identifying the locomotives pictured and explaining their roles in this crucial era of American railroading.
Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive
Author: J. Parker LambPublisher: Railroads Past and Present
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators. For some, the new technology promised to be a source of enormous profits; for others, the railroad industry seemed a threat to their very livelihoods. Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive introduces the reader to the important technological advances that gave rise to diesel engines, examining not only their impact on locomotive design, but also their impact on the economic and social landscapes. J. Parker Lamb describes the development of these technologies, allowing the reader to fully understand how they were integrated and formed a commercially successful locomotive. Like its companion volume, Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive (IUP, 2003), this book emphasizes the role of the leading engineers whose innovations paved the way for critical breakthroughs. Rail fans will appreciate this authoritative work.
Power
Author: Presenting the Work of Diesel Construction Company, Inc
Author: Diesel Construction CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
From Steam to Diesel
Author: Albert J. ChurellaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822688
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This overview of the leading locomotive producers in the United States during the twentieth century shows how they responded to a radical technological change: the replacement of steam locomotives by diesels. The locomotive industry provides a valuable case study of business practices and dramatic shifts in innovation patterns, since two companies--General Motors and General Electric--that had no traditional ties to locomotive production demolished established steam locomotive manufacturers. Albert Churella uses many previously untapped sources to illustrate how producers responded to technological change, particularly between the 1920s and the 1960s. Companies discussed include the American Locomotive Company (ALCo), the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the Lima Locomotive Works, Fairbanks-Morse, the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, and General Electric. A comparative work of business history and the history of technology, the book is not a complete history of any locomotive builder, nor does it explore the origins of the diesel engine in great detail. What it does, and does superbly, is to demonstrate how managers addressed radical shifts in technology and production methods. Churella reveals that managerial culture and corporate organizational routines, more than technological competency per se, allowed some companies to succeed, yet constrained the actions of others. He details the shift from small-batch custom manufacturing techniques in the steam locomotive industry to mass-production methods in the diesel locomotive industry. He also explains that chance events and fortuitous technological linkages helped to shape competitive patterns in the locomotive industry.