Early Diesel
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Early Diesel
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.
"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
-- François de La Rochefoucauld. Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales. 1665.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld. Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales. 1665.
Re: Early Diesel
Yeh! two more new locomotives in RT3 please. either doubleheaded 2D2 or this diesel electric variants released in the mid 1928. Remember that many railroads did dieselize BEFORe the second world wars. including the Royal State Railways of Siam (today State Railways of Thailand)Just Crazy Jim wrote:A pair of 2-D-2s converted to diesel for the Canadian National RR (1928)