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This card shows demonstrator #291, which General Motors built as a demonstrator for F3 (but really the F2) in July, 1945. The F3 was going to be 150 hp more powerful than an FT, but in 1945 GM realized the … Continue reading
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This is an original watercolor painting by General Motors artist Harry Bockewitz showing the proposed color scheme for E7 locomotives that the manufacturer was hoping to sell to the railroad. The paint design is nearly identical to the F3 locomotives … Continue reading
I’ve shown this ad before in a post on Bern Hill’s artwork for General Motors. Since then I’ve acquired these sample advertisements distributed by the Kudner Agency of New York. Click image to download a 836-KB PDF of this ad. … Continue reading
Based on a speech by General Motors vice-president in charge of public relations, Paul Garrett, this booklet only briefly explains why GM built (or had built for it) the Train of Tomorrow. The company’s goal, says the second paragraph, wasn’t … Continue reading
Although the cover is so non-descript that I’m using the title page in the image below, this booklet contains 31 color illustrations of General Motors passenger and freight locomotives and another 48 black-and-white photos of General Motors switch engines. The … Continue reading
Ralph Budd was one of more than 10 million people who saw the General Motors Century of Progress exhibit in 1933, and for 1934, this brochure says, “Everything has been changed” except for the Chevrolet assembly line (which was the … Continue reading
In 1933, no one had any idea that General Motors would soon become the nation’s largest builder of railroad locomotives. So it is not surprising that this brochure, which was distributed at Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition, focuses on GM’s … Continue reading
Frisch liked the six E7 locomotives (numbered 2000 to 2005) it purchased in 1948 for the Meteor and Texas Special so well that it soon added sixteen E8s (which were first made in 1949) for its other passenger trains. This … Continue reading
This is the General Motors builder’s card for the Great Northern E-7s built to haul the 1947 streamlined Empire Builder. GM delivered 13 of these locomotives to the GN starting in 1945. The painting on the card is by GM … Continue reading
This booklet provides a semi-technical explanation of how Diesel motors work and how they differ from gasoline engines. For example, it explains the difference between a two-cycle engine and a four-cycle engine using the metaphor of a passenger train: in … Continue reading