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What will happen to EMD now that it is sold and is the SD 90 MAC still being produced
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Yes, EMD does not catalog the SD90MAC. <br /> <br />The future for EMD? Warren Buffet and others are paying $500 million plus debt assumption to buy it. Railroads are continuing to order their products -- each order represents a multi-million dollar bet that the company will be around 20 years from now to support the product being ordered today. I suppose they could all be completely wrong, but history indicates they've been correct in most of their decisions so far. <br /> <br />The number of models in the catalog indicates nothing on its face value. Offering to build something that no one wants or something that won't be profitable strikes me as insane. Since the North American Class I railroads constitute 80% of the available world-wide market for diesel-electric locomotives, and 99% of what they want is a six-axle locomotive in the 4300-4400 horsepower range with either a D.C. or A.C. transmission, why would a builder want to offer anything else? Would you go to the trouble to design, test, and market a locomotive whose maximum sales potential is 20 units a year? Or put exactly the same amount of effort into a locomotive whose maximum sales potential is 600 units a year? <br /> <br />OS
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