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Many times, the units got rebuilt, and often with parts from other ex-locos. I know that the Southern traded in many of its first-generation Alco RS's when it purchased new GP-35's, and those Geeps ended up riding on the old Alco trucks. Now you know I just gotta have me one of those! Also, some of the Norfolk & Western's Alco C-630's got their trucks replaced by sets off of old FM Trainmasters (inherited from its merger with Virginian). An NW SD-45 was wrecked while in Reading rails, and the Reading rebuilt it with a conventional low short nose... which was unique for an NW SD-45. Just about anything is possible. I think there are some modern motive-power leasing companies that recondition old retired locomotives, and I bet they'd have a yard full of decrepit castoffs.
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