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Southern Pacific Historic Diesels, Volume 22
Passenger Hood Units Reprise
By Joseph A. Strapac
This volumesummarizes Southern Pacific\'s experience with hood units (road switchers) inpassenger service, beginning in the early 1950s.
Locomotive modelsaddressed in detail are the Fairbanks-Morse Train Masters, Alco RS-3 (CottonBelt) and DL-701 (SP), demonstrator and emergency \"protection\" units,as well as Electro-Motive SDP45, GP40P-2, SD7, SD9 and GP9 models.
Numerous imagesin this book are repeated from earlier volumes, but the book itself is not areprint. It follows the model of Volume 20, which reprised the passenger cabunits. Coverage of the Train Masters is significantly expanded over that inVolume 1, which has been out of print for more than ten in Passenger Service
Fairbanks-Morse Train Masters
GP9 Passenger Locomotives
SD9s in Passenger Service
ALCo Road-switchers and Motor Cars
Test Locomotives and Demonstrators
The Second Generation: SDP45 and GP40P-2
Amtrak P30CH and Caltrain F40PH-2
Passenger Hood Units in Color
Shade Tree Books,softcover, 176 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., B&W and color photographs with 16pages in color, Roster and extensive text.
Published January 2017
List Price $39.95
Our Price $33.95
Format: softcover
Condition: new
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