Early Diesel
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:44 am
A boxcab for the Long Island RR (1926) - fatuously claimed to be the first to enter actual service. I'm pretty sure the Russians might say otherwise.
Boxcab #50 was the first diesel locomotive on the Reading system and the second diesel locomotive in the United States (Alco, 1926).
A pair of 2-D-2s converted to diesel for the Canadian National RR (1928)
NYC #1547 (1928)
NYC #1550, first diesel to be designed and used for freight (1928) - image from New York Central's employee magazine "Headlight".
NYC #1550 (1928) - artist's rendering.