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Shade Tree Books. Softcover. New. In the era of diesel locomotives, the railroad industry had been demanding a quantum leap in locomotive technology. Southern Pacific and Union Pacific spent millions of dollars, essentially to drive home the point to the locomotive builders that their current products were inadequate for current conditions. The EMD engineering team went back to the drawing boards and essentially re-invented their product. On the strength of EMDs test labs tours, important customers (including the Great Northern, Santa Fe, and the Southern Pacific) took a leap of faith and placed significant orders for a new locomotive none had seen in action: the SD45. EMD built 1,260 SD45 locomotives between May 1966 and December 1971; the Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt purchased 356 of these, an impressive 28.3% of total production. Southern Pacific quickly adopted the SD45 as the flagship of its locomotive fleet. The Operating Department finally had a reliable EMD diesel-electric that could run…
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Southern Pacific Historic Diesels Volume 12, EMD SD45 Locomotives Paperback - 2006
by Strapac, Joseph A.
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- Title Southern Pacific Historic Diesels Volume 12, EMD SD45 Locomotives
- Author Strapac, Joseph A.
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- Edition First edition, f
- Publisher Shade Tree Books, Bellflower, CA
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9780930742294
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