Dieselization without EMD?

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oltmannd

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Posted by oltmannd on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:24 PM

Alco? FM? Baldwin?

These guys made decent locomotives, just not up to EMD's stds.

It was the economics of the the new technology that drove dieselization, not EMD per se.

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chad thomas

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Posted by chad thomas on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:21 PM

Without EMD, I imagine we would probably have lots of Alco,Baldwin and Fairbanks Morse locos running around.

FThunder11

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Posted by FThunder11 on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:19 PM

Well there is GE, but EMD did create locos like the sd40-2 and f40 and all those good locos. hmmm /it would be a crazy train world with out them, but im sure someone else woulda stepped in

Kevin Farlow Colorado Springs

espeefoamer

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Dieselization without EMD?

Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:17 PM

What would the history of dieselization in America have been like if the Electro Motive Corporation had never entered the business?Other companies had been producing diesel switchers for some time,but EMC produced the first road diesel,the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr,then the EA and E1.

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