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Sounds like my justification for an Erie-Built not only surviving into the 21st Century, but also working with cars that need HEP (which wasn't invented when they were built). The museum's C&NW 6001B is assumed to have laid dormant in a weed-grown corner of the yard for many years, to the extent that most of the mechanical components were well beyond saving. It was decided instead to rebuild the loco using more recent and easily available EMD parts, and to fit HEP at the same time to allow it to work main-line excursion trains as well as the bilevel cars it usually hauls. After a 10-year rebuild we now have a loco that looks exactly the same as it did when it left the Fairbanks-Morse Erie plant, but has modern mechanical components. Operationally it is assumed to be as powerful as the original (2000HP), and when I can afford to I plan to fit a 2nd-generation EMD sound chip - with turbo - as this is the type of power unit it is now assumed to have. The things we do to run locos we like!
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