When Westinghouse decided to get out of the business of supplying electrical gear for locomotives, Baldwin contracted with GE. GE designed a main generator, the GT-590, to mate with the Baldwin engine, and built (or so it is said) 22 for Baldwin. Two were used on the last AS-416 built for the Norfolk Southern, and the rest were "sold." For reasons explained in more detail in a post ("What WAS the GT-590?") on the GE forum, I am curious about these generators. In particular, I'd like to know if anyone has information relevant to
QUESTION # 1 (historical): who were the 20 un-used generators sold to when BLH gave up hope of further orders for large locomotives, and, in particualr, were they sold back to GE?
QUESTION # 2 (technical): what were these generators like: were they a derivative of some better-known GE design (like, maybe, the GT-586), and could they have been modified to allow use with a higher-rpm engine (like, for instance, the 7FDL)?
QUESTION # 1 (historical): who were the 20 un-used generators sold to when BLH gave up hope of further orders for large locomotives, and, in particualr, were they sold back to GE?
QUESTION # 2 (technical): what were these generators like: were they a derivative of some better-known GE design (like, maybe, the GT-586), and could they have been modified to allow use with a higher-rpm engine (like, for instance, the 7FDL)?
