Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780911122077
ISBN number: 0911122079
Label: On Track Publishing houses, LLC
Manufacturer: On Track Publishing houses, LLC
Page Count: 541
Printing Date: 2003
Publishing house: On Track Publishing houses, LLC
Sale Popularity Level: 1580108
Studio: On Track Publishing houses, LLC
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
cloth with colour dust jacket, 11.25' x 9' horizontal format. 'This new book is 542 pages of crisp, clear grey 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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