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The American Locomotive Company: A Centennial Remembrance | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard T Steinbrenner
Creators: Catherine E. Nemetz, Bill J. Battle
Publisher: On Track Publishers, LLC
Category: Book
Buy Used: $68.99
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Sales Rank: 1371638
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 541
ISBN: 0911122079
EAN: 9780911122077
ASIN: 0911122079
Publication Date: 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
cloth with color dust jacket, 11.25" x 9" horizontal format. "This new book is 542 pages of crisp, clear black and white photos with lavishly illustrated diagrams of the inner workings of many engines. Covering steam and diesel locomotives as well as automobiles and trucks that Alco built, it includes shots of the plant inside and out. The author's other works include "Lehigh Valley 3 in Color" (Morning Sun, available) and numerous articles in railroading and modeling magazines. * More than 1000 B/W photos, illustrations, & diagrams. * The plants of ALCO and its predecessors and subsidiaries, showing plan views and detailed photos and illustrations across 150 years. * Detailed descriptions of ALCO's steam, electric and diesel locomotive designs, augmented by photos and original ALCO elevation drawings. * Detailed production data, covering the most important elements of annual production and of individual locomotive types. * ALCO's on/off relationship with GE. * ALCO's distinguished contributions to National Defense. * The mostly underrated (and under-related) story of ALCO's export business, especially during its last decades. * ALCO's financial performance - and supporting analyses - over its 70-year history. * ALCO's last years up against the financial might its competitors - GM & GE. * The sad saga of ALCO's takeover in the 1960s by the Worthington Corp., then Studebaker-Worthington. * ALCO's legacy of designs and operational locomotives, which continues today. "The rise and fall of the American Locomotive Company mirrors that of America's Industrial Age. Formed from eight 19th Century locomotive builders during an age of 'trusts' and giant mergers underwritten by the country's greatest financiers, ALCO expanded further by acquisition of two additional locomotive builders and of other manufacturers in related and unrelated businesses."
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