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Some of you guys are confusing "Edsel" with "lemon."  There was nothing intrinsically unsound with the Edsel; it's just that not enough people wanted it.  The Edsel was a marketing failure made notable by huge expectations that were not fulfilled, not a technical or mechanical failure, and many examples listed above were complete technical failures (or not; I'd disagree that the SD50 was a poor locomotive, just not as good a locomotive as it people thought it should be).  In reality, an "Edsel" is an artificial construct, a strawman erected by the media and later burned down by the same people that built it. Locomotives where manufacturer and media expectations came up well short include F-M C-Line -- too late! F-M Trainmaster -- too soon, too complicated, too expensive Alco Century Series -- expected to save the company; it didn't EMD SD90MAC -- too big GE AC6000CW -- also too big I don't recall any hoopla at the time of introduction about the BL2, SD45X, RS1325 -- no one expected them to do much and the SD45X was purely an experimental.  Ditto with the U50C and C855 and BQ23-7 -- everyone knew they were one-offs, at best. I completely agree on Acela, SPV2000, LRC -- the hoopla was vastly out of proportion to their impact or actual demand. S. Hadid
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