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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by wjstix I think ATSF got their Alco RSD-15 "alligators" in 1959, about the same time as their low-nose SD-18 from GM?? Santa Fe loved diesels because they didn't require the huge amounts of water that steam engines did. IRRC they were the first RR to buy FT's from General Motors in 1940-41, and bought as many as they could, followed by F-3's and F-7's for both freight and passenger service. In the fifties they might have still had some early E units from the 1930's, those were the first engines to wear the famous "warbonnet" paintscheme. [/quote] IIRC the FTs did not come from General Motors. EMD (Electro Motive Division of General Motors) was still independent and called EMC (Electro Motive Corporation). Not sure of the date of change from EMC to EMD but I think it was post FT.
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