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Without knowing which "trench" you refer to, I offer the following: I work as an instrument and control technician for a petrochemical manufacturing plant. As such, I have seen many instances where the problem was not the equipment, but the equipment operator who either did not understand the controls or was abusive to them. The UP uses Dash 9 AC's for almost all of their coal hauling, and in the corridor where my brother works, as I mentioned earlier, he has very regular hands on experience with both brands of locos. The Santa Fe, who owned the GP-50's, had many problems with them, and would not purchase the SD-50 at all. The same held true for the Burlington Northern. I do agree that SD-40-2's are pretty good engines. However, please note that most railroads are continuing to run their older GE units, which is one reason why you are running EMD's instead of them. Also note that the leasing companies are not getting units such as the SD-50 and GP-50 models. Even they realize that everything from EMD was not gold.
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