Customer Reviews

GE Evolution Locomotives

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This well written book is an excellent reference book that should be a part of every serious railfan's collection. Cover diagrams of the GE Evolution Series locomotives are only the beginning of a wealth of information about the GEVO origin, growth plan, testing, marketing and building of both the AC and DC series. Many great pictures of the locos in great railfan settings. Readers are given a full account of the GE Evolution Series locomotives and their GEVO powerplants. Focus is on the products that meet the EPA's more stringent "Tier 2" emissions regulation. This book also gives a rare view into the GE factory in Erie Pa.

I got this book and read it pretty much all the way through the night I got it (so it must have been pretty good). I thought the general outline of the book was good in terms of covering the environment out of which the Evolution series came, some of the critical decisions they made, how they tested it, who has adopted it, and where they expect to take the platform in the future. Found some of the text a bit disjointed, like it didn't get edited as closely as it could have. And I found myself wanting more details then it provided (hey, I'm an engineer!).

Hi!
This book was really interesting reading if you are interested in how diesel engines from GE have been progressing through the decades.
This writer Sean Graham-White is really good of what he is doing.
The book is very well written I must say. I could only find a few misspellings. It shows in a very thorough way how these fantastic machines have been developed through the decades with lots of good illustrative pictures and with just as good comments to these pictures.
The only thing that I am really missing is a summary chapter where you can see all these different variants of machines are put up in some kind of diagram or table. This, so it will be more easy to see the small changes of development as the evolution has been going forward of these massive machines.
But if I summary this book overall I can really recommend it for those who want to get some really thorough information of these machines. It is very "nutritious" of information. You need to read it at last two times to get most of this information into your head......
I was very pleased with this book I must say, so I can really recommend it.

Yours sincerely Mark from Sweden.

It's an ok book for railfans or kids who are generally less interested in the technical and mechanical aspects and just simply want to learn more about GEVOs. However, I spent several years in locomotive maintenance/repair at a Class I railroad and there are many statements that provide a glossed over explanation (re: how the engineer "tells" Locotrol to either go in to CTE or FTE; there is a little more to it than an engineer simply speaking to a Harris Box) or are just plain wrong (re: instrumentation in the GE test cars; nowadays loco monitoring is performed with a laptop in the cab. The test car merely provides a place for the GE Reps to sleep/rest, watch TV or snack on Tombstone Pizzas).

Picked up at a used book store for $10 and wouldn't have paid full list price for it. Lacks details and has more errors than I care to count. As an employee of GE I'm embarassed to see a book like this written about our signature locomotive.

Book does a good job of explaining why a GEVO is different and is very thorough, GREAT photos.
TAH