Railroad Locomotives

Preface:  There seems to be decent amount of writing on the net about Lima-Hamilton diesel locomotives, and my belief is that if all one doe...

  What railfans today commonly describe as the "Dash 7" or "-7" line of General Electric diesel locomotives was ann...

In our last installment, we looked at the history of diesel-hydraulic road locomotive development in Germany. We noted the early development...

After a very long time on the RIP track, I've decided to haul our blog RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVES out of the weeds and place it back into serv...

Most historians and railfans are aware that the first commercially successful diesel-electric locomotives to be produced in the United State...

{I originally wrote and disseminated this document in mid-2005. At that time, I placed it on file in a number of locomotive forums. I have...