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that's great you're an engineer, i sure wish i could be. but i don't work for NS, and neither do you. you may be an railroad engineer, but i assume you do not have an MBA or degree in engineering. you have to look past the simple ages of these locomotives. not all locomotives are created equal. SD40's are still around because they were superbly designed and built. GP9's are still around because they were superbly deisgned and built. do you see any U25B's around? no, because they were an inferior product. railroads bought many locomotives from GE over the years because of GE Capital, the financing arm of GE. it generally has nothing to do with the actual product, GE probably just had a spectacular financing deal for them. if you still disagree, would CSX risk their relationship with GM shipping cars just to by a better locomotive from GE? of course not, they did it because GE financed their locomotives better. why do you think NS is buying hundreds and hundreds of C40-9W's? what i see practically every day is conrail C40-8W's in fading paint, more and more C39-8's being stricken from rosters, and also B32-8's. GE locomotives are probably great when they're brand new, but railroads do not hang on to them. i don't know how they age. but GE locomotives do not last. it has been months since i have seen a DASH-7 on NS. yet every day i see many GP38's, GP40's, SD40's, SD38's, and even SW9's and SW1200 on a local switching railroad. GM locomotives were good locomotives. you don't have to be an train engineer to realize this thing. go trackside, read the wall street journal, and read a train magazine and you can figure them out for yourself.
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