Goober Wrote:
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> Old EMD's are soooooooo much easier to work on and
> maintain than old GE's. GE parts cost a fortune
> (if you can get GE to sell them too you at all)
> you gotta have special tools to work on GE's (they
> cost a fortune) and older GE's wiring is scattered
> all over the place (mostly in places that leak
> water) and the list goes on. You'll notice, even
> dash-8's tend to find the scrapper rather than the
> secondary market. GE has made a lot of
> improvements over the years, but class 1's still
> regard them as a throw away unit when they are
> done. (NS is trying a rebuild/upgrade program for
> dash-8's --- time will tell if it will pencil out
> or not.)

The old GE's...once everything above the deck is gone...make good foundations for slugs and gensets....and in my experience...that's about all!

Our good old EMD's seem to run forever and when you need parts...UPS delivers the next day!

Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad