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The western railroads liked them. SP, BN, ATSF kept them going long after the eastern roads got rid of them. Interesting to me was that the Northern Pacific bought them and put them in consists with U25C's and U28C's. The GE's would out pull the SD45 in the mountains but on the plains the SD45 was the winner. The NP's idea was to put the engineer in the SD45 and use the "springless chuggers" for their better tractive effort. You could guess what happened. At least 50% of the time the GE's were in the lead. Also, the ATSF was expert at maintaining the brutes and that I think went a long way in them keeping them so long.
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