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It wasn't simply market forces that caused railroads to turn to EMD locomotives. There were many documented cases of trains showing up to the gate of a GM or GM affiliated factory with a steam locomotive or a diesel from Alco, Baldwin, etc. and the plant manager would lock the gate in front of the crew and inform them that until they showed up with an EMD locomotive all inbound and outbound freight would be shipped using trucks with GM tractors. Futhermore, where ever the freight was shipped it had to be pulled using GM locomotives, or it would revert to trucks or shipped on railroads who would use EMD locomotives. With the amount of freight that GM represented the railroads easily submitted. It took action from the federal government to stop GM from enforcing this policy.
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