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Mookie: They were M.U'd. Many switch engines were built with M.U. capability, and by the late 1950s, almost all of them had M.U. capability because it gave railroads vastly more flexibility. The M.U. connections were added to both ends of almost all locomotives, or it wouldn't have been much good. (F units and E units often didn't have it on the nose of A units as built, which was rather short-sighted, and connetions were usually later added.) <br /> <br />There are very few, if any, switch engines still in the employ of a line-haul or terminal railroad that do not have M.U. capability. The lack of this feature is a definite drawback to trying to sell one to a short line or industrial customer, like trying to sell a car without air conditioning to a suburban housewife in Atlanta. <br /> <br />OS
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