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The short line I recently visited here in the USA had a maintenance department that was militantly in favor of EMD.  They had a collection of about a dozen or so locomotives that were still running about 50 years past their build dates.The reasons they gave me for the favoritism were as follows:1) They had gotten good deals from the locomotive brokers out there on EMD versus GE.2) They felt that the EMD locomotives were better built- "these things can take a ton of abuse and pull trains." one guy said.  He felt that EMD's were more durable than GE's- his attitude was that GE's were "toasters".  "Who are you going to trust more... a division of a company that made cars and trucks... or household appliances?"The only problem they had was finding parts for their locomotives to keep them up, but I suspect that they would have had the same problem keeping 50 year old GE's going too.Erik
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