Vintage Our GM Scrapbook Morgan Kalmbach PB Trains Diesel Locos 1971 Orange USA

Author: David P. Morgan, Wallace W. Abbey, Harold A. Edmonson, Jerry A. Pinkepank

Book Title: Our GM Scrapbook

Format: Vintage large-format trade paperback railroad history and photo book drawn from the pages of Trains magazine.

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Publication year: Copyright 1971 by Kalmbach Publishing Co.; printed in the United States of America.

Language: English; genre: transportation and history; narrative type: nonfiction historical and technical survey.

Topic: General Motors and Electro-Motive Division diesel locomotives, including their development, design evolution, marketing, and use in freight and passenger service across North American railroads.

Intended audience: Adult railroad enthusiasts, rail historians, model railroaders, transportation scholars, and collectors of vintage Trains magazine books and GM/EMD memorabilia.

Details: Contents reprint and update classic Trains magazine articles such as "Whatever happened to those guys from Cleveland?", "M-300 to M-10000: the formative years," "9900 to 9908: the custom years," "Those esthetic E's," "Diesels within yard limits," "F means freight," "Everyman's locomotive: the Geep," "Six motors for special duty," "These 567's spoke any language," "At EMD an era ended, an era began," and "A market-oriented catalog," followed by a photo section titled "The diesel spirit," a behind-the-scenes look at how the "home of the diesel locomotive" builds diesels, and a closing section of prototype drawings.

Illustrations: Heavily illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and drawings depicting streamliners, Aerotrain equipment, freight units such as GP and SD series locomotives, yard diesels, cab details, factory views, and schematic prototype sketches that document the visual history of GM diesel power.

Cover artwork: Front cover features a color photograph of a streamlined GM diesel locomotive nose with 1950 number boards and GM shield emblem framed against a deep blue panel on an orange background, with the legend "from the pages of Trains" along the lower edge; back cover is solid orange with a "A Kalmbach Publication" imprint near the bottom.

Features: Large-page softcover format ideal for viewing photo spreads and drawings, compilation structure that gathers multiple feature articles into a single volume, and Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-150049 printed inside.

Country of origin: Printed in the United States of America.

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