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Futuremodal sayeth: "I find it fancinating that you seem to take the whole idea of premature dieselization as a personal affront, rather than accepting the study and the concept for what it is." What idea of premature dieselization? Who dieselized prematurely? The last big railroad to dieselize was N&W, and they waited until the costs per GTM/TH favored the diesels, and then steam was gone. I don't know of any railroad that dieselized prematurely. I know several railroads, the Southern being most prominent, that would like to have dieselized a lot earlier than they did. You cite this Brown study as some kind of gospel which you think proves that everybody screwed up. As long as you think that way, trying to explain anything else to you is like trying to explain reality to a Democrat. But the Brown study (which I admit I haven't studied, simple-minded me) is subject to the same prejudices as any other. You choose to accept it for what it is, whatever it may be. It doesn't seem to have changed history in the least. I don't accept the premise, but then again, I'm just simple-minded. Old Timer
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