ISBN: 0890243743
Trains Magazine's Golden Years of Railroading Series No Locomotives better symbolized the coming of the diesel era than Electro Motive Division's F units. Starting with the first FT of 1939, F units proved that diesels could perform as well as steam in heavy mainline freight service, and Fs themselves were subsequently vanquished by later Geeps, U-Boats and Centuries. But their attractivness, reliability, power and versatility earned the Fs an enduring spot in railroading's Golden Years. Over 120 pages with 120 photographs of FT, F3, F7, F9, FP7 and FP9 units from all the major railroads who rostered them.