Diesels & Electrics (1)

Locomotives International
Special Edition No 1

Price: £14.95

Softback, colour cover, 80 pages, including 16 pages of full colour, 37 colour photographs, 66 black & white photographs, 35 locomotive diagrams.

ISBN 1-900340-16-X

As earlier generations of diesel and electric traction have been superseded around the world they have slipped out of use with little attention while steam has been chased till it disappears. Among these diesels and electrics are early British exports and some classics developed in Europe and America, as well as other little-known but fascinating pioneers of 'modern' traction - not that there's much 'modern' about the traction in this publication!

Some well-known authors have contributed to this edition, their photos supplemented by reader's pictures, giving a wide selection of diesel and electric subjects on gauges broad, standard and narrow. As always, we cover that which other publications rarely touch with a worldwide view of railways.

Contents:

The World's First Main Line Diesel
Early Diesel Traction Development
British Post-War Exports
The DeDion Bouton Railcars of the Hedjaz Railway

Early Narrow Gauge Diesels of Indonesia
Indonesian Sugar Plantation Diesels
Diesels and Electrics of Cuba
What is All This About Three-Phase Locomotives?
Italian Three-Phase Electrics
Direct Drive on Diesel Locomotives
Dutch Narrow Gauge Diesels
The Dieselization of the Central Railway of Peru

The McKeen Cars
Made in the DDR - LEW Hennigsdorf Products Still at Work in China
From Russia with Love - The LEW IV KP1 80-ton Electric

More yet is awaiting publication so a second modern traction edition is to be prepared later in the year.