GE’s Dash 8 C Series Dieselization Enters the Third Generation by Diesel Era For Sale

RailroadTreasures offers the following item: GE’s Dash 8 C Series Dieselization Enters the Third Generation by Diesel Era GEs Dash 8 - C Series Dieselization Enters the Third Generation by Diesel EraSoft Cover120 pagesCopyright 1994CONTENTSDieselization Enters the Third Generation 5Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 13 B.C. Rail 25 Canadian National31 Chicago & North Western 39Conrail49 CSX Transportation61 Norfolk Southern77 Quebec, North Shore & Labrador86 Union Pacific87Dash 8s in Color105 Inside the North American Cab113 Dash 8 C Series Roster 115Bibliography 117Index118INTRODUCTION: The first locomotive of what many consider to be the third generation of America\'s diesel era rolled out of General Electric\'s Erie (Pa.) plant in November 1987. Painted and lettered for its owner, Union Pacific, the 391,000-pound giant introduced the latest in computer technology coupled to a 4,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder prime mover.The Dash 8 line was developed throughout the early- and mid-1980s in conjunction with a major upgrade of GE\'s Erie, Pa., locomotive plant, making it a \"factory of the future.\" The new shop included a fully automated traction motor assembly line that used microprocessor-controlled robot arms to manufacture this vital component.While the FT model brought the widespread use of the internal combustion engine to America\'s freight railroads in the 1940s and the GP30 introduced dieselization\'s second generation in the 1960s - an era of high-speed, high-horsepower turbocharged locomotives - GE\'s Dash 8 series is just as revolutionary. The model continues the high-horsepower tradition, but uses computers to mate the high output with improved reliability, increased fuel efficiency, and higher tractive effort. The new locomotive not only increased GE\'s share of the domestic locomotive market, but also allowed the company to outsell its longtime competitor, General Motors\' Electro-Motive Division, for the first time in history. This success was hard fought, beginning in 1962 with the introduction of the U25B model, GE\'s first domestic road locomotive.
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