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There were a lot of railroads for which the decision to dieselize was the correct one at that time. You can second-guess them all you want with the benefit of fifty years of 20-20 hindsight, but for the Southerns and the GM&Os and the PRRs and the Milwaukee Roads and all those dependent on a lot of old, obsolete steam power - even those who had a good quantity of what would be considered modern steam power - a lot of them would not have lasted ten more years - twenty at the outside - if they had to do business with steam in the 1960s and 1970s. Labor costs and inflation made the big difference. The labor cost savings alone in the 1950s can be quantified - go back and look them up. The data are available. <br /> <br />The whole point is moot and has been for decades. Lets move on. <br /> <br />Old Timer
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