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Re: Class 1 steam, final runs
Author: Tom McCann
Date: 10-20-2009 - 14:44

Several years ago, Kalmbach Publishing put out a special Classic Trains issue called "Diesel Victory", which traced the ascendancy of the diesel locomotive from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the last regular Class 1 steam shut down.

One of the articles adressed this particular issue by asking, what was the first Class 1 to completely dieselize? The standards for being called a Class 1 were much more broad in past years, so some railroads that would have called Regionals or even Short Lines today (Texas-Mexican, for example) were among the first to drop their fires.

If you can find the magazine, it is a very interesting read.

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  Class 1 steam, final runs Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 11:22
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Nate Beal 10-20-2009 - 12:22
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 12:50
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Eugene 10-20-2009 - 13:00
  Re: WP steam Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 13:07
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs ke6qr 10-20-2009 - 20:00
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs E 10-20-2009 - 14:24
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Tom McCann 10-20-2009 - 14:44
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Nate Beal 10-20-2009 - 15:14
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Eugene 10-20-2009 - 15:19
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs George Andrews 10-21-2009 - 16:35
  Re: Class 1 steam, final runs Larry 10-21-2009 - 17:31
  Re: GTW Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 15:45
  Re: GTW Nate Beal 10-20-2009 - 15:50
  Re: GTW Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 15:56
  Re: GTW douglasm 10-21-2009 - 14:45
  Re: GTW Ed Johnson 10-26-2009 - 17:57
  Re: T&P Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 15:55
  Re: T&P Stevo del Applegato 10-20-2009 - 16:03
  Last D&RGW steam Sunset Express 10-20-2009 - 18:25
  Re: Last D&RGW steam douglasm 10-21-2009 - 14:47
  Re: Last D&RGW steam Mike Swanson 10-22-2009 - 07:52
  Re: T&P Graham Buxton 10-20-2009 - 18:44
  Re: T&P's last steam Sunset Express 10-20-2009 - 16:20
  Re: T&P's last steam Tom Moungovan 10-20-2009 - 16:28
  Re: T&P's last steam rusticmike 10-20-2009 - 19:22
  Re: GTW Rich Hunn 10-21-2009 - 16:44


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