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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C As to Alco building their own electrical equipment, a couple of things come to mind. GE appear to have continued to supply Alco with the equipment they needed, including the GTA-9 alternator for the C-630 before GE used it themselves in the U30C. Alco didn't have the resources, financial or otherwise, that GM had in the 1940s to set up production of a competing line of electrical equipment. Peter [/quote] The electrical components and wiring for a loco were almost one-third of the loco's cost. Every sale of an Alco was in part a sale for GE. Nothing like helping your competiton is there? I believe that in the 1940s Alco didn't see the need to set up their own production of electrical equipment but had they done so that might have bough them more time in the locomotive production business. Alco closed in January 1969 with the first major gas crisis coming in 1973. The 251 engine enjoy a better mpg than either the then current GE or EMD engines. But Alco had already closed. IF they could have remained in the business the gas crisis might have been favorable to Alco. But we cannot go back and rewrite history even though I would dearly love to do so.
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