Streamlined Thoroughbreds: A Photographic History Depicting the Working Careers of the GM, S, 42 and 421 Class of Locomotives from the Early 1950s to the Mid-1980s and Beyond (ARHV-BK2)
Product No.: ARHV-BK2
Title: Streamlined Thoroughbreds: A Photographic History Depicting the Working Careers of the GM, S, 42 and 421 Class of Locomotives from the Early 1950s to the Mid-1980s and Beyond
Author(s): Complied by Barry Eadie
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: A.R.H.S (Victorian Division)
ISBN: 0858490536
Condition: New
Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards
Dust Jacket: New
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 2004
Features: 108 Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos.
Streamlined Thoroughbreds is a lavishly illustrated book published to illustrate the working careers of the Commonwealth Railway's GM class, Victoria's S class and New South Wales 42 and 421 class of locomotives. These locomotives were introduced in the early 1950 s to replace ageing steam locomotives and so revolutionised those railway systems.
The locomotive design was a modified version of the F7 model for the Electric Motive Division of the General Electric Corporation of America. The contract for the building of these locomotives in Australia was awarded to Clyde Engineering Company Limited of New South Wales.