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Uncle Sam's Locomotives The USRA and the Nation's Railroads by Eugene Huddleston
Uncle Sam's Locomotives The USRA and the Nation's Railroads by Eugene Huddleston
Copyright 2002
Hard Cover with dust jacket
232 Pages
Contents:
Introduction ix
1. Formation1
2. The Committees5
3. Controversy11
4. Allocations19
5. Standardization of Details25
6. Costs and Quality Control37
7. Mikados41
8. Pacifics51
9. Mountains57
10. Switchers63
11. Santa Fes69
12. Mallets77
13. Standardization Perspectives87
14. World War II Parallels95
15. USRA and Super Power101
16. USRA and Smoke Abatement105
Picture Gallery115
Bibliography 207
Index211
During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the U.S. Railroad Administration. One of the USRAs 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 Sams 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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