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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68Consider, too, that EMD produced a package. There is nothing to say that the individual components might not have still been developed. Integrating them is where EMDs success came from. A railroad could have successfully blended the components into a locomotive which would then have provided a template for other railroads, and manufacturers, to follow. Might have been interesting if, rather than moving into locomotives, EMC/Winton had speciallized in the diesel engines only, providing them to locomotive builders, much as Cat does today. [/quote] Remember that the earliest EMC/EMD's went into Budd built carbodies for streamliners. I wonder just how hard it was to produce a complete loco. GE and Westinghouse already made most of the electrical equipment and I recall pictues of Great Northern boxcab electrics with the overhead MU connections. All that was eally missing was the diesel engine itself. That technology was readily available from the Germans after WWI and again after WWII.
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