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Jruppert: I greatly appreciate your expertise in engines -- I'm learning a lot from you and Peter that isn't really obvious in the engineering texts. But -- you knew that would have to lead to a "but" -- I don't think that War Production Board restrictions were really anything more than an excuse invented by railfans years later to explain away the failure of their beloved Alco. If one looks at the historical record when it's written by historians who don't have a pre-existing agenda to absolve Alco, it seems clear that Alco's most serious problem was that EMD had been developing a diesel engine since the early 1930s, and Alco hadn't. It was a very new and high-risk technology, and Alco waited far too late to get started. By the time they did, EMD had made all the mistakes that Alco was still destined to make, and EMD had solved them and Alco didn't even know what they'd be yet. <br /> <br />OS
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