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Hello group almost all of the engineers I have been over the road with would rather have an all EMD lash up just for the pulling power. Them herky jerky dash 8`s & 9`s do not like to load worth a hoot as someone said earler just a little bit of wheel slip and they start to unload where as the old worn out sd 40-2 just keeps on loading. I was on pusher service in Iowa when we had to go push a 100 car grain train over the hill they had 3 dash 9`s on the point and only got about half way up the hill 2 odl sd 40-2`s shoved them over the hill. There horse power per ton was 1.4 they still died them old EMD`s just dug in and started the shove. Rodney
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