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Well, we've used up eight pages of this thread proving nothing. <br /> <br />Those seeking to impress us with their thermodynamic and/or mechanical expertise have yet to prove that there was a technology in place in the 1950s that would make a steam locomotive more profitable than a diesel, or more specifically, make steam propulsion more profitable. <br /> <br />Those seeking to revise history by utilizing the works of previous would-be revisionist historians to prove that the railroads were overburdened by the cost of financing their diesel purchases have yet to point to any railroad bankruptcy that was directly attributable to the purchases of diesels. Oh, a couple of railroads went bankrupt in the early post-steam era, notably the NYO&W and the PC, but both of those were on the way to bankruptcy anyhow. Their failures can't be blamed on dieselization. <br /> <br />I guess what I'm saying is that this is getting tiresome. Can we do something else for a change? <br /> <br />Old Timer
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