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| Author: | tomgears [ Mon May 10, 2010 9:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The December 5, 1949 issue of Live has a store about the GM&O becoming the first railroad to dieselize. http://books.google.com/books?id=VkEEAA ... &q&f=false |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Mon May 10, 2010 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
Maybe the first MAJOR railroad, but I distinctly remember a couple contenders for other lines retiring the steamers (or other power) with diesels. I'm thinking Northampton & Bath, with those brutish Westinghouse locos? |
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| Author: | eldiner [ Mon May 10, 2010 10:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The New York Susquehanna & Western always claimed to be the first Class 1 to completely dieselize, in 1947 I believe. |
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| Author: | Gary Gray [ Mon May 10, 2010 11:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The Chesapeake Western dieselized in 1946 with Baldwins 661, 662, & 663 retiring their ex-N&W steamers. 662 & 663 have survived, 662 is property of VMT, and 663 is now part of our collection http://wizzy.rrpicturearchives.net/show ... id=1763723 |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Mon May 10, 2010 11:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The Class One threshold was much lower in the 30s-40s-50s, with almost 100 railroads qualifying. The Texas-Mexican claimed to be the first Class One to totally go diesel, in 1939, with a strange roster of Whitcombs and home-made boxcabs replacing all their steam power. NYS&W, after going independent from the Erie in 1940, started ordering Alco diesels to replace the ancient steam power the Erie left behind. By 1946, all those engines were gone. NYO&W was diesel by 1948. Wasn't the M&StL also an early (1947-48?) convert to all-diesel? Howard P. |
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| Author: | S. Weaver [ Tue May 11, 2010 10:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
Ironically, SRC surrendered to IC completely in 1926, with the purchase of our Plymouth. Fortunately we saw the light thirty-four years later and returned to steam. |
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| Author: | BSOR Patarak [ Sat May 15, 2010 11:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
For a short line, the Arcade and Attica purchased their first diesel in 1941. The back up steam locomotive was used only once in 1947 after the diesel suffered a derailment. A second diesel was purchased and the operation was fully diesel by 1947. The diesels, #110 and #111 were both purchased new from GE and are still on the property today. Pat Connors |
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| Author: | superheater [ Sun May 16, 2010 9:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
Didn't the Tex Mex go to petroleum with box cabs? |
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| Author: | Chris Salmonson [ Mon May 17, 2010 8:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re:second Railroad to Dieselize in the US |
The Detroit & Mackinac dieselized in 1946-1947. |
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| Author: | Matt Bumgarner [ Mon May 17, 2010 8:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The Alexander Railroad, 20 miles between Statesville & Taylorsville, NC, dieselized completely in February, 1946 with the arrival of GE 45-tonner #1. Number One replaced the steam engines that had been rented from the Southern Railway in the month prior to her arrival. The ARC still harbors a 44-tonner and 2 Alcos on her current roster, www.thejunebugline.com Matt Bumgarner |
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| Author: | DTE203 [ Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Company dieselized in 1945 with two ALCO S-1 switchers, replacing Baldwin 0-6-0s that were second-hand from the Detroit, Toledo Shoreline that were originally ordered from Baldwin by the Cloverleaf. |
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| Author: | lmckay175 [ Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
The Chicago Great Western was another railroad to convert to diesel early, in the late 1940s. Because of this, all the steamers were scrapped before major preservation efforts began, and therefore no steam locomotives from this road survive today. |
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| Author: | Alex Huff [ Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
Midland Continental, 72 miles in North Dakota, is another early Dieselized operation with a 1934 built Westinghouse centercab, and a 1946 built Alco RS-1. Alex Huff |
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| Author: | Les Beckman [ Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
tomgears wrote: The December 5, 1949 issue of Live has a story about the GM&O becoming the first railroad to dieselize. Tom - Considering their early dieselization date, it's rather amazing that we have two GM&O steamers still with us! Paulson Spence saved one of their Pacific's (GM&O #580) and a Ten-Wheeler (GM&O #72) was sold to a private industrial operation in 1948. Les |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: First Railroad to Dieselize in the US ... GM&O 1949 |
Spence had a number of other GM&O locomotives, including 0-6-0s and 2-8-2s. All went to scrap after his death in 1961. Howard P. |
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