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I read on the website Snakebites.org I believe that UP was having all kinds of problems with it. This website is written by union trainmen and I do not recommend minors viewing it as it has course langauge. It said that they paradeed the engine for the media saying it was a success. Then they pulled the huld back to the engine house. In my experience switcher type locomotives are to underpowered for the modern class yard. They are fine for switching cuts not very fast. The yard I worked at we kicked cars and you need a good engine that loads fast and stops quick. Believe me switching with a GP-60 is a blast. most of the time we used 38's,40's and 50's. Once and a great while we would get a 1500 and the crews hated them. We even had one go kaputt in the middle of the shift. If you want to see some good switching don't go to a hump yard go to a "bowl" or flat yard. With a good crew I could switch a lot of cars in a shift. That's my opinion, What do you other guys and gals that worked the yards think?
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