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Hello Trains.com! Im' first time on this forum and I need to say I already like it. I appreciate what moderators are doing 'cause that's [explicative removed] a job to be running a forum like this one Now I want to tell you about something that amused me greatly in the recent. Perhaps some of you know already that General Electric has come to a decision to discontinue the line of its 7FDL12 engines that fail to meet ecological norms in the EU and even the US itself. However, closing a manufacture at Erie is a certain loss of profit while EG badly needs this money to stay in business. That's when EG's board of directors decided to hold negotiations with Russian Railroads company in order to open an assembly line for 7FDL12 engines in Leningrad region. And still, at the very last moment Russians understood that GE was about to take advantage of them so they brought the deal to naught. Really, the 7FDL engines were designed half a century ago (!) and hence fail to compete with Russian-made engines However, money has no smell while Russia has a vast locomotive pool that requires modernization with new engines. That's why GE decided to take a risk and lobby opening of an assembly line in Russia's neighbor state Kazakhstan. Of course, Kazakh-made engines are no better than the ones that used to be made in Erie but wiseheads in GE are sure that Russians would be buying them all the same :) Isn't that cool?
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