First Generation Of Diesel Locomotive

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October 11, 2005

Diesel power has been around since 1901. It was named after Rudolph Diesel, a German engineer born in Paris in 1858. In the 1920s, improvements in reliable controls to match the load of electrical generating and propulsion systems led to the first generation of diesel train locomotives in the late 1930s.