Erie-builts and H20-44s: Fairbanks-Morse's 2,000-Horsepower Pioneers (NEW BOOK)

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Erie-builtsand H20-44s:
Fairbanks-Morse’s2,000-Horsepower Pioneers

byDavid R. Sweetland
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Order before3:00 pm (ET) for same-day postal mailing.Bookhas 200+ photos w/ many color photosBookcovers opposed-piston-powered locomotives. During the development ofthe 1,000-horsepower switcher, Fairbanks-Morse officials knew thatthe company would have to produce a road cab unit if it were going tomake it in the locomotive business.

F-M engineers designed aroad locomotive around a car body styled by industrial designerRaymond Loewy.

Since F-M did not have the shop capacity tobuild a large locomotive itself, it contracted that work to GeneralElectric, which produced the units at its Erie, Pennsylvania plant,hence the name Erie-built.

GE went on to build 111 of thedistinctive locomotives for the Union Pacific, Santa Fe, MilwaukeeRoad, Kansas City Southern, New York Central, and Pennsylvaniarailroads.

With a 1,000-horsepower switcher and a2,000-horsepower road cab unit, F-M wanted to enter the road-switchermarket. During 1946, the company’s engineering team designed a2,000-horsepower end-cab unit for its first road switcher, named theHeavy Duty unit.

Few railroads saw the H20-44spotential-moving tonnage at a higher speed than could a typical1,500- and 1,600-horsepower four-axle road switcher of the era. Inall, 96 H20-44s were sold to five customers.

Softbound,8.5×11, 92 pages(2 pages in color), 167 photographs (40 in color).
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