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route_rock I think you got it wrong. Its actually two 2-10-4 barely crawling versus 1 sd70mac flying at 30 mph. Unless you want to convince me that your 2-10-4 can do thr job that two locos equivalent to big-boy cannot do. When FT diesel first appeared it was better or equivalent then steam in every category. Just look: Big Boy had 135000lb tractive effort and ~6000 hp. Weighed 540 tons. (11.11 hppt) ABBA set of FT was 5400 hp and 480 tons. IT also did about 240000 lb of tractive effort. (11.25 hppt). It was a completely different quality with much lower costs and elimination of water stops (which yields giant fuel savings). When F7 was first availible it was game over - steam lost, the new king was elected.
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