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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Mark W. Hemphill Gentlemen: EMD vs. GE is a fine topic for this list. But U.S. vs. U.K.? That will not encourage people to come to this forum and become interested in railroads, but will drive them away. That doesn't serve any of our goals. [/quote] THANKS MARK! Now let me say somehting that is not so BLANTLY OBVIOUS. You know why you like them? BECAUSE you don't own ONE! and that goes for everyone, even all you ALCO smootching fans. You never owned an ALCO, the RR you worked for did. So when it continuously broke down, that was NO money out of your pocket was it? THE RR paid for the repairs. Now let's jsut say ALCO came back from the dead, and bought out Ford and Started reapplying cheap parts, or shoty wiring, or whatever the problems were, and you just bought a brand new FORD-ALCO Mustang. HEY NOT BAD! it looks good, it wasn't that expensive, and all the chicks are digging it. Then it starts CONTINUOUSLY BREAKING DOWN. even after you spend more then the ORIGINAL VEHICULE IS WORTH, would you still be saying.. oh look this is the beauty, and it works so well.. NO? then why are you saying that about an ALCO? put that shoe on your foot, pretend you bought an entire Fleet of ALCO PAS and they kept breaking down, you would be madder then wildfire, and don't Bull S^&^ me and tell me that you wouldn't be... If looks really counted in life, i'd have 3 Girlfriends, no joke. BUT THEY DON'T! Behind a "good looking" alco, is a rusted out pile of scrap that is likely to break down within the next five minutes! and thats the EXACT same thing with a GE. EXACT, unless you own it, you really shouldn't be saying it's that nice, And trust me they aren't.. Whoever above said the computer had problems, was right. And sometimes we get them up here as replacements when our EMDs get tuned up, i'll take the day off. Last time the IRC broke on a GE, and we got stuck. (IRC, that might be french and i don't know what it is in English) So don't know don't go. Another EMd story, The Quebec city Transit corporation STILL RUNS EMD F series locomotives. They bough theres from Montrwal and have reported a minimum amount of problems. Montreal sold all of theres 3 years ago, so from 1950 - 2000 we had EMD F series units running the show. and they were replaced with EMDs not GEs, don't get me wrong Ge makes good lightbulbs and Plasma Tv's... oh baby. But not when it comes to freight Train locomotives.
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