Since my last thread in the BN section sort of had to do with BN and GE, it made me wonder. Seems like in the 1990s just about every major class I railroad ordered widecab GE products except for Burlington Northern. Does anyone have any insight as to why this was or was it just BN's loyalty to EMD?
Probably a combination of two things:
1. as you said, BN did prefer EMD's.
2. Just timing..GE Widecabs didnt become common until the early 90's, and BN ceased to exist in '96.
So during that short time, perhaps they simply didnt need new power, or if they did, they bought EMD.
If BN had lasted another 5 years, they probably would have had GE widecabs..
some quick googling shows they bought over three hundred SD70MAC's between '93 and '96.
New GE's were simply not needed then..
So im offering that as the most likely theory..just timing.
Scot