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Murphy Siding asketh: "What didn't N&W like about the F-7's, that they did like about the GP-9's?" Murph - N&W wasn't ready to dieselize in 1952 when the F7s were tested. They were ready in the later 1950s because the cost of running steam locomotives (dollars per gross ton mile per train hour) had finally gotten more than the cost of running diesels. Maybe you don't realize it - few do - but N&W dieselized for cash - no loans or equipment trusts. This includes servicing and shop facilities. They bought the engines and everything necessary to support them outright. The only N&W diesels of that era to carry equipment trust plates were a dozen or so GP30s to which the trusts were transferred from the Virginian rectifier electrics, so the rectifiers could be sold. And the GP9 was a better engine mechanically and electrically than the F7. You'd expect that, with the intervening years. And N&W wouldn't have bought a cab-style unit, anyhow. Old Timer
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