MS Moments 208: John Balser - From Steam to Diesel - a podcast by USM Center for Oral History

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The advent of Diesel-electric locomotives was a vast improvement over the steam engines they replaced. John Balser worked as a machinist at the McComb Railroad repair shop. He recalls the pride that the steam engineers took in their locomotives. Balser also details how much more efficient the new Diesel engines were than their steam predecessors.