Product Details
Title:
 Amer Loco Co Centennial Rememb
Author:
 Richard T Steinbrenner
Publisher:
 On Track Publishers
ISBN or Item #
 0911122079
Date Listed:
 2004-09-26 12:36:02
Retail Price:
 $69.95
Our Price:
 $59.95
Description:
Cloth w/dj, 11.25x9" 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 here) and numerous articles in railroading and modeling magazines. - More than 1000 Black & White photographs, illustrations and diagrams. - The plants of ALCO and its predecessors and subsidiaries, showing plan views and detailed photographs and illustrations across 150 years. - Detailed descriptions of ALCO's steam, electric and diesel locomotive designs, augmented by photographs and original ALCO elevation drawings. - Detailed production data, covering the most important elements of annual production and of individual locomotive types. - ALCO's on-again/off-again relationship with the General Electric Company. - 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 - General Motors and General Electric. - 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 to 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. This book analyzes in detail the business implications and technical accomplishments of ALCO's progression. "'The American Locomotive Company: A Centennial Remembrance' should be of great interest to historians, railroad enthusiasts, and members of the community interested in finding out about what happened inside ALCO and why."