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Diesel locomotives

Here are entered works on locomotives that employ an onboard diesel engine to generate electricity to turn the wheels, as well as locomotives whose diesel engines power the wheels through a gear box or through a hydraulic system. Works on locomotives that run alternatively by an external electric power supply or by an onboard diesel engine as needed are entered under Electro-diesel locomotives.

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• Locomotives

• Diesel-electric locomotives
• Diesel locomotive engines
• Locomotive diesels

• The Dilworth Story: The Biography of Richard Dilworth, Pioneer Developer of the Diesel Locomotive (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1954), by Franklin M. Reck (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Locomotive Engineering, and The Mechanism of Railways: A Treatise on The Principles and Construction of The Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant, With Examples (2 volumes; London et al.: W. Collins, Sons, and Co., 1871), by Zerah Colburn and D. K. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Investigation of the Causes of the Explosion of the Locomotive Engine, "Richmond", Near Reading, Pa., on the 2d Sept. 1844 (New York: Herald Book and Job Printing Office, 1844), by Dionysius Lardner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• Locomotive Engine Running and Management (17th edition, 1890), by Angus Sinclair (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)

• The History of the First Locomotives in America (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by William H. Brown (HTML at catskillarchive.org)
• Pictorial History of the Locomotive (Chicago: Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., 1899), ed. by William Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer, by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, illust. by Lynd Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Locomotive (partial serial archives)
• The Locomotive Engineer (1888-1891) (full serial archives)
• Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)
• Railway and Locomotive Engineering (full serial archives)

• Modern Locomotive Valves and Valve Gears (Chicago: Griffin and Winters, 1918), by Chas. McShane
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Specifications for Electric Locomotives Proposed for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1905), by General Electric Company, contrib. by New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust