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  • Discussion of Electro-Motive locomotive products and technology, past and present. Official web site can be found here: http://www.emdiesels.com/.
Discussion of Electro-Motive locomotive products and technology, past and present. Official web site can be found here: http://www.emdiesels.com/.

Moderator: GOLDEN-ARM

  by conrail_engineer
 
EMDs all right.

The other day I saw three trucks lugging GE radiator assemblies north toward Erie...I couldn't help but wonder, why things have gotten so bass-ackwards. ONE TRAIN could easily haul a hundred of those assemblies; right to the manufacturer's door. With no great expense in handling.

But you know, railroad suppliers? They know what the business is lke; and they want to GET it there. They use trucks.

  by ExEMDLOCOTester
 
EMD used rail between the 103rd st plant and LaGrange before the "Just in Time" manufacturing process became the craze.