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New Equipment Brochures #6

The New Haven typically produced some kind of brochure or advertisement for distribution to the public when new equipment arrived on the property, especially new passenger equipment. Here are a few representative examples of publicity material for new equipment dating from the late 1950s. All items from the collection of Marc Frattasio.

The McGinnis administration made plans to re-equip the New Haven with EMD locomotives. These plans specified leasing a fleet of 60 SW-1200s, 120 GP-9s, and 88 FL-9s to replace all diesels and electrics then in service. This ambitious plan was kicked off during the summer of 1955 when arrangements were made to obtain 20 SW-1200s. However, changes in management and finances resulted in the plan being drastically scaled back and modified. During early 1956, the succeeding Alpert administration made arrangements to obtain 30 GP-9s and a like number of FL-9s from GM. This magazine advertisement from the middle of 1956 deals with the New Haven's SW-1200 and GP-9 orders.

This magazine advertisement from 1957 promotes New Haven president George Alpert and his then-recent order for 30 FL-9 diesel-electric-electric locomotives from General Motors' Electro Motive Division. The dual-powered FL-9s were the result of design studies conducted during the Dumaine and McGinnis administrations in an effort to eliminate the locomotive change that took place in both directions at New Haven, CT. Alpert would come to order an additional 30 FL-9s in 1960.

The New Haven ran this full-page advertisement in a number of newspapers across southern New England during the spring of 1957 to promote its new high-speed lightweight passenger trains. Unfortunately, the McGinnis and Alpert administrations had different perceptions of how the new passenger trains were supposed to be operated, which contributed to their failure. The McGinnis administration viewed each train as an experimental testbed and had intended to run each one in extended test service before buying twenty examples of the most successful example. The Alpert administration, however, did very little in the way of testing and rushed each train into regular passenger service.

Schedule folder for the lightweight trains that was distributed between the spring of 1957 and the early summer of 1958. The front cover of the folder features artwork of the Train X "Dan'l Webster".

The interior of the folder shown above presented artwork of the Talgo "John Quincy Adams" and RDC based "Roger Williams". The trains' schedules were on the back.

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