The New York Central Railroad Co. last week placed the year's biggest order for locomotives. They were all dieselsin of them, to cost $21,000,000. Thus, the New York Central marked the quiet revolution which has been going on in the Centraland many another U.S. railroad since war's end. The revolt is against steam locomotives in favor of oil-burning diesels. Of the 1,176 locomotives which U.S. railroads had on order Dec. 1, only 33 were steam. The rest were diesels.
The bulk of the diesel orders has gone to General Motors' Electro-Motive Division, which last week got an $11,000,000 chunk of...
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