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[Diesel-electric locomotive] / New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. – Historic Print

[Diesel-electric locomotive] / New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., [between 1930 and 1960] — historic photograph
[Diesel-electric locomotive] / New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., [between 1930 and 1960]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Diesel-electric locomotive] / New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.

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A diesel-electric locomotive of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad is the subject here, one of the photographs the Association of American Railroads made of the line's equipment sometime between 1930 and 1960. The New Haven was based in Connecticut and ran commuter and intercity trains into New York City, so its engines worked in both states named in the record. Diesel-electric units, which generated their own electricity to drive traction motors, spread across American railroads during those decades because they needed less fuel handling and servicing than steam power. Pictures like this one recorded a turning point in railroad technology.

Created / published[between 1930 and 1960]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1960.
NotesFrom: Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C. No. 4785.
SubjectsNew York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company--Equipment & supplies--1930-1960. Railroad locomotives--Connecticut--1930-1960. Railroad locomotives--New York (State)--New York--1930-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180965

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