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Let's try a BIG PICTURE look at EMD vs GE. <br /> In the 80's every major GM division [5 auto, 2 truck, Detroit Deisel, EMD, etc.] was in trouble the same way. They use to dominate their market with products that were the best enginered, most reliable, and cheapest to produce. By the late 70's early 80's they had hung on to good designs for too long. These old designs could not keep up with new demands/standards, or the toolig was wearing out, or the updating work was inferior, or someone had come out with a better product[think Honda/Toyota]. When new designs were finally brought out they were troubled, often being worse than what they were to replace [ Chevy Beretta, the 50 line]. Worse was a corporate attitude that there was no proublem,"we know what to do, we just need to do it better", or " we have a preceived qaulity problem" { better call that last one a paraphrase rather than a quote]. <br /> Eventually the board of directors woke up and did their job, fireing the existing top corporate management and bringing in a much more capable team. This was a hugh story at the time and brought out a lot of business humor about CEO's all across America suddenly in fear of their boards waking up. GM sreanlined, downsized, reengineered and is now making good to great product. I thought th 70 line could be included in this and would hate to see EMD go just because a fellow bean counter desided the market was to small to for the capital needed to make a good loco great again. Maybe if they branded a 70mac as the next Cadilac SUV the numbers could work.
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