dieselization got rolling. Transition era? The real transition took at least two decades or more longer and in- volved how railroads fit in our national economy, the role they played in local business, and the equipment and facili- ties used to do the work. This is impor- tant to modelers. While it is true that a general freight
train of 1952 looked a lot like one in 1962, or even in 1972, they were not the same. “New” infiltrated “old,” but it took a while to supplant it. It was in- sidious. We tend to assume that a tra- ditional-era freight train is a freight train is a freight train. Yes and no. How do we model those trains? Better yet, how do we model them accurately? Do we just use whatever kits and cars we have as long as they are forty feet long and have roof running boards? We need to know what things actually looked like on the rails and when. Among other things, this book lets us do that. It largely consists of “train photos,” just what we need. It is not only that new car designs re-
placed what was inherited from mid- century, the traffic on the rails changed as well. To test these theorems, take large, random jumps through the pages of this book, then go back in between, quietly re-reading to see the industry evolve during the third quarter of the twentieth century. For us it is the “tradi-
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