Muzzle Not The Ox

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I should have added that the T-1s at the time were showing very poor availability, according to the "Trains" article, and the diesels were new and were less affected by the cold winter (except for the fuel in the steam generator to counter the effects of cold, of course.

So while the availability was much better than the T-1s, this was because the E-7s were a bit better than the best steam performance and the T-1s were a lot worse than the best steam performance (and sadly remained so to varying degrees for their whole lives).

The article commented upon the diesel maintainer asking the harrassed foreman for wheel turning, and the foreman refusing to believe that the E-7s had run the quoted mileage because it was several times more than the best of his recalcitrant T-1s.

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