by dsrc512
If you are interested in very early EMD products and have access to Trainorders' video library, the above film is worth seeing. Filmed before the 567 Diesel made its appearance, most of the early streamliners are shown in action. As an introduction to Diesel electrics, there is a clip of a McKeen Motor Car in action on the UP (note the flywheel!) , two photos of the CNW's streamline train made of modified McKeen Cars, action shots of the UP's City of Salina motor train powered with a gas distillate engine as the Winton 201A wasn't yet available, and both the Budd built Pioneer Zephyr for the CB&Q and the Flying Yankee sister for the B&M. Other rarities like the B&O shovel nose at speed, the bulbous nosed early E units and Rock Island TA's in action are all professionally filmed. There is a segment on the early gas-electrics motor cars followed by the early EMD cars and what may be a Rock Island baggage-locomotive pulling a boxcar, rear end leading. The latter part of the film expounds on the virtues of Diesel switch engines showing both the single stack Winton 600 hp and twin stack 900 hp units. The narration is a bit "voice of G-d", but the subjects make up for it.
Alex Huff
Alex Huff
