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[Mookie]

Ed - I am so glad you are back here - I always learn something from you!

Mudchix - no argument there! Have a Ford, too!

Mookie

[Mookie]

Ed - I am so glad you are back here - I always learn something from you!

Mudchix - no argument there! Have a Ford, too!

Mookie

[kenneo]

The EMD's stay around for ever. SP SD9's built in 1953 still operate all over the place. BN still operates 567 engined EMD's. GP 30's, one of the most problem plauged locomotives they put out (GP/SD 24, 35, 45 were the others) got a "kit fix" and is still around working. In fact, of the 4 really problem children from EMD, only the SD-24 is gone. All of the others got fixes and work hard still to this day. Even after 50 years.

[kenneo]

The EMD's stay around for ever. SP SD9's built in 1953 still operate all over the place. BN still operates 567 engined EMD's. GP 30's, one of the most problem plauged locomotives they put out (GP/SD 24, 35, 45 were the others) got a "kit fix" and is still around working. In fact, of the 4 really problem children from EMD, only the SD-24 is gone. All of the others got fixes and work hard still to this day. Even after 50 years.

[wabash1]

when i was hanging around the people who sleep for a living with the railroad( mech dept) the biggest cost was ge engines slways something going wrong with the electrical from main generator to traction motors. the cost of regular maintance was a little higher but was within reason. main problems in the engine was injectors. the dash 9 units would brake a fuel line going into the injectors and flood the engine with fuel. the main reason for all the ge units was cost. 2 for 1. you could get 2 ge for 1 emd. and during the power crunch they bought what was avalible. now you are seeing a swing back to emd. and some of the older worn emd units are getting rebuilt. i have yet to see any of those ge units getting rebuilt.

[wabash1]

when i was hanging around the people who sleep for a living with the railroad( mech dept) the biggest cost was ge engines slways something going wrong with the electrical from main generator to traction motors. the cost of regular maintance was a little higher but was within reason. main problems in the engine was injectors. the dash 9 units would brake a fuel line going into the injectors and flood the engine with fuel. the main reason for all the ge units was cost. 2 for 1. you could get 2 ge for 1 emd. and during the power crunch they bought what was avalible. now you are seeing a swing back to emd. and some of the older worn emd units are getting rebuilt. i have yet to see any of those ge units getting rebuilt.

[edblysard]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1
Your right,Wabash, I havent seen any rebuilds either.
In fact, we get about 5 GE C30s down here each week, in TILX and Furx marks, still painted in BN green, and they are being shipped overseas to China.
Any locomotive where someone as skinny as me has to turn sideways to get through the door belongs in China.!
Stay Frosty,
Ed[:D] you could get 2 ge for 1 emd. and during the power crunch they bought what was avalible. now you are seeing a swing back to emd. and some of the older worn emd units are getting rebuilt. i have yet to see any of those ge units getting rebuilt.

[edblysard]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wabash1
Your right,Wabash, I havent seen any rebuilds either.
In fact, we get about 5 GE C30s down here each week, in TILX and Furx marks, still painted in BN green, and they are being shipped overseas to China.
Any locomotive where someone as skinny as me has to turn sideways to get through the door belongs in China.!
Stay Frosty,
Ed[:D] you could get 2 ge for 1 emd. and during the power crunch they bought what was avalible. now you are seeing a swing back to emd. and some of the older worn emd units are getting rebuilt. i have yet to see any of those ge units getting rebuilt.