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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MichaelSol Well, the ultimate costs per 1000 tons of freight moved showed that this proposition wasn't true. The costs of steam were about the same as the costs of diesel. That included labor. Notwithstanding the mass production arguments, diesel locomotives cost more per rail hp to purchase than steam. Therefore, the rate of return had to be less. Why do you think that was? Best regards, Michael Sol [/quote] I'm not so sure you can just ignore that point, just for the sake of supporting your idea? [/quote] So why do you think steam couldn't/can't be mass produced on an assembly line? The fact that steam was custom built back then was just the modus operandi of the steam builders. Remember, the Ford auto plants were only a decade or two old back then, so mass production en masse for US producers wasn't yet the prefered way. FYI, one of the primary reasons Baldwin failed so miserably in its diesel production was that it tried to build diesels the same way they built steam, e.g. customization.
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