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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jrw249 I run AlCO's all summer on a tourist line andthey run very well for being 50 years old!!!!!!!! However , I have no GE or EMD experience so I'm staying our of this ??????? [/quote] Kevin, You are comparing apples to oranges when you compare Alco to Enron. The two companies closed for different reasons. Alco choose to close its doors. If they would have stayed around for another 5 years and had the Century line in the year 1973 (the year of the long gas lines and fuel shortages) the Alco Century line would have sold well. The 251 engine had better mpg then either the EMD or the GE engines then available. Alco sold a lot of locos overseas, more than GE or EMD. The 244 engine gave Alco a bad name amoung some railroads. After the 244 engine many railroads would not give Alco another chance. Too bad, they had a good product in the 251 engine and that engine is still available today. (The prime mover as an engine, just not as a loco.) But as someone said in another thread, railroads have long memories, and some just never would try Alco again. I can kinda see that tho. My Camero Z-28 was a high preformance vehicle. And a vehicle which was costly to maintain. It was a money pit almost from the word "GO". So I kinda stay away from Chevy. (OH NO, I just started a Ford vs. Chevy war. [B)] [:0] ) Also my father owned a S-10. It should have been painted yellow as he had nothing but trouble with it. As a matter of fact just last December he replaced it with a new Ford Ranger. I also have a Ford Ranger. I guess if we are tearing up companies for their bad products then Chevy should close any day now. At least that is my family's thoughts of Chevy. So I Guess Chevy and Enron are in the same boat. (Being facetious, yes I am.) Now is Chevy such a bad company because my family has had nothing but trouble with them. OR did we just happpen to get some of their worse products? Well I am not buying any more Chevys because their Camero Z-28s and S-10s were such a bad product. So they can close now, I won't buy any more. Now that is just the approach some railroads had. You can equate the Camero Z-28 and the S-10 to Alcos 244 engine. So is it fair to Chevy to say I won't buy any more? Is Chevy's product that bad? Since I had trouble with them I just will buy EMDs and GEs and forget about Alco(Chevy). btw my Ranger is six years old and has never had any major problems. I have put a new battery in it and a new serpentene belt. I replaced the belt before it was time, just to be safe. It gets the oil changed when needed. If it were a loco it would be a good one. [}:)] [:p]
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