QUOTE: Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH The Iron Ore Company of Canada also had a small fleet of SW1200MG's that were derived from the SW1200 with a bank of rectifiers and related equipment replacing the 567 engine.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod Perhaps the most famous 'regular' EMD electrics (leaving out the Rc-4-derivative AEM-7s) were the pair of demonstrators built in the mid-'70s: GM6C #1975 and GM10B #1976. As Mark said, these used ASEA traction gear (at that time European components were very exotic!). There wasn't much call for modern freight electrics at the time, and PC/Conrail weren't particularly in the market -- essentially the only market in the United States -- for new freight-only locomotives (if anything, they already had a glut of GG1s, E-44s and E33s, etc., and they were already running extensive diesel consists on the wired trackage because it was more flexible to do so) I dimly remember that the GM10B had some kind of running-gear difficulties, and the 6C was not particularly kind to the track... certainly wasn't as good as the decades-older G in that respect. We didn't particularly like the appearance of the locomotives at the time (call us spoiled by Loewy streamlining!)
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Carl
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