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[quote user="daveklepper"]I think this whole argument loses one important point.   A lot depends on what the locomotive is used for.  I doubt a genset locomotive would perform as well as the best of the current road diesels in over-the-road intermodal or heavy lugging for long periods on mountain grades.   But in fact, that is the service for what ALL conventional diesel locomotives have been designed for until recently.  Because that is the market for which technological progress has been made, and commuter locomotives, switchers, transfer jobs, all are just versions of the over-the-road heavy freight hauler.   So the genset locomotive is trying a different approach for switcher applications.   I hope it and the goat are successes for the sake of the industry. [/quote] All England wept when they retired the Deltics. Those were good engines. We may yet find "Good engines" in the future. But in the meantime we go thru everything we can think of.
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