Re: Northwest 1973
Author: Jim700
Date: 03-21-2010 - 00:04
Steven D. Johnson Wrote:
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> Holy crap! Will ya lookit the trucks on that
> thing! I wonder if AlCo was trying out for a
> brutally ugly horsepower contest with Dodge...?
You like 'em, eh, Steven? You'd like 'em even better if you had the chance to ride them. I believe they were the best riding diesel I ever ran. They rode like a baby buggy; really smoothed out less than optimal track. We ran them in passenger service also in the wintertime, towing around the blowing-snow-shorted-out-traction-motored EMD Fs just for their steam generators to heat the trains.