| By: | Thomas C. Ayers |
| Dates: | 4/1/1978 - 4/1/1978 |
| Album Info: | Here is a four-page article entitled "The World's Largest Railroad Shops." It was published originally in the April 1978 issue of "Rails Northeast" magazine, pages 12-15. No author is specified.
"The zenith for the Altoona Shops would have to be the period 1925-28 and then again from 1943-46. The newly arrived diesel-electrics reduced the need for the Altoona Shops to build new motive power, and the presence of the Shops may have had something to do with the late move by the Pennsy to convert from steam to diesel. After all, an investment valued at some $27 million in 1946 was not easily discarded to a new technology." (Page 15) |
