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Modern Diesel Locomotives (Enthusiast Color)

Modern Diesel Locomotives (Enthusiast Color)
By Hans Halberstadt

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Exceptional photography captures modern diesel locomotives hard at work moving trains on tracks everywhere from California to Boston. Major railroads are brought to life including the Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Conrail, Southern Pacific, and Burlington Northern. Modern Diesel Locomotives even gets under the skin of the locomotive and shows 12-foot-long diesel engines being rebuilt! Includes a short history of the rise of diesel technology.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #262445 in Books
  • Published on: 1996-09-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 96 pages

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About the Author
Hans Halberstadt has authored and co-authored more than fifty books, mostly on military subjects, especially U.S. special operations forces, armor, and artillery. Halberstadt served in the U.S. Army as a helicopter door gunner in Vietnam. He and his wife, April, live in San Jose, California.

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Like wow man!5
Very nice photography, I love it yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As usual with Hans Halberstat, the text isn't great, but it passes the F test. He talks of the early geeps and the latest MACs, and the full body locos (F-units). He also interviews engineers, and they give him the goods and the bads of driving trains. Personally, I am a fan of GM's locos much more than GE's, and now that I have read this book, it seems that many engineers agree with me.
Trevor

Nice Pictures add flavor to good basic information4
As books about US Railroads are hard to get in Europe (albeit amazon.de is very helpful in providing them), I was looking for a very "basic" work on modern US diesels, describing what makes the engines roll in words and pictures. I think that Hans Halberstadt did a good job there, yet some chapters seem a little short and do noe quite entirely cover the respective topic. Short eyewitness reports lighten up the reading. Nice book; I caught myself every now and then checking certain things on my HO models, to see if they were there, too. This book is also highly recommendable for everyone who wants to spend his spare time browsing around in his/her spare time now and then. It helped me explain certain things about railroad equipment to some of my "uninitiated" friends.

Disappointing - Pictures and text disjointed3
I thought the text was well written and informative and the pictures were wonderful but there was absolutely no link between the two. Text sections about the EMD had pictures of unrelated locos. It was frustrating to read about a certain locomotive and then have to search the entire book to try and find a picture of it. It was like the text was written, then they bought the nicest stock pictures of locos they could find and pasted them into the text wherever the art director wanted them, without ever reading the text. I was also hoping for more description of how a GP7 was different from an SD40 and such. Still looking for a book with that info.