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I really enjoyed H. Roger Grant's piece on William White in Summer 2002 CLASSIC TRAINS but one thing puzzled me. Mr. Grant wrote that White, soon after taking over as president of Erie Lackawanna, ordered 36 2500 h.p. diesels -evenly split between EMD (GP35s), GE (U25Bs) and Alco (C425s). Since 36 units was a small order even in the 1960s why would White have split the order between three builders? From an operational standpoint (crew familiarity, maintenance, parts) wouldn't it have made more sense to stick with one builder, if not one model? <br /> <br />(BTW, Pat McGinnis did the same thing when he was president of the New Haven Railroad in the mid-50s and NH fans are still flaming him for it today!)
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