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Title: Modern Diesel Locomotives by Hans Halberstadt ISBN: 0-7603-0199-9 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Like wow man!
Comment: Very nice photography, I love it yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As usual with Hans Halberstat, the text isn't great, but it passes the F test. He talks of the early geeps and the latest MACs, and the full body locos (F-units). He also interviews engineers, and they give him the goods and the bads of driving trains. Personally, I am a fan of GM's locos much more than GE's, and now that I have read this book, it seems that many engineers agree with me.
Trevor
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice Pictures add flavor to good basic information
Comment: As books about US Railroads are hard to get in Europe (albeit amazon.de is very helpful in providing them), I was looking for a very "basic" work on modern US diesels, describing what makes the engines roll in words and pictures. I think that Hans Halberstadt did a good job there, yet some chapters seem a little short and do noe quite entirely cover the respective topic. Short eyewitness reports lighten up the reading. Nice book; I caught myself every now and then checking certain things on my HO models, to see if they were there, too. This book is also highly recommendable for everyone who wants to spend his spare time browsing around in his/her spare time now and then. It helped me explain certain things about railroad equipment to some of my "uninitiated" friends.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing - Pictures and text disjointed
Comment: I thought the text was well written and informative and the pictures were wonderful but there was absolutely no link between the two. Text sections about the EMD had pictures of unrelated locos. It was frustrating to read about a certain locomotive and then have to search the entire book to try and find a picture of it. It was like the text was written, then they bought the nicest stock pictures of locos they could find and pasted them into the text wherever the art director wanted them, without ever reading the text. I was also hoping for more description of how a GP7 was different from an SD40 and such. Still looking for a book with that info.
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Title: Vintage Diesel Locomotives by Mike Schafer ISBN: 0760305072 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The American Diesel Locomotive by Brian Solomon ISBN: 0760306664 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Modern Locomotives High-Horsepower Diesels 1966-2000 by Brian Solomon ISBN: 0760312583 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives by Greg McDonnell ISBN: 0890246076 Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Diesel Locomotives: The First 50 Years: A Guide to Diesels Built Before 1972 by Louis A. Marre ISBN: 0890242585 Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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