Uncle Sam's Locomotives: The USRA and the Nation's Railroads (Railroads Past and Present)

Uncle Sam's Locomotives: The USRA and the Nation's Railroads (Railroads Past and Present)
Author: Eugene L. Huddleston
Publisher: Publisher: Indiana University Press; ; (August 2002) ISBN: 0253340861
Description: Hardcover: 196 pages
ISBN: 0253340861

The USRA locomotives are favorites of railfans?and deservedly so. Yet this is the first illustrated book about them.

During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the U.S. Railroad Administration. One of the USRA's first acts was to rationalize the railroad supply industry by standardizing rolling stock designs, including twelve locomotive types, at a time when customized designs were taken for granted. Uncle Sam's Locomotives looks at these magnificent locomotives and discusses how and why the designs were chosen, how they related to existing designs, what standardizing entailed, and how each performed.

Huddleston deals masterfully with the complex and often controversial relations between the U.S. Railroad Administration, the railroad companies, the major locomotive builders, and the numerous smaller companies that supplied locomotive accessories. Featured is a Picture Gallery of USRA locomotives?light and heavy Mikados, Pacifics, Mountains, Switchers, Santa Fes, and Mallets.

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