I'm a big ALCo fan but I'm dismayed by the stupid engineering decisions that ALCo made. No wonder they went out of business. Especially when GE told them to redesign their prime mover back in 1952. They could've done so much better. But a friend of mine many years ago, An X Pennsy engineer, that the prime mover had various weakness to it and that ALCo gave up trying to fix the problems. But also the rail-fan literature talks about how fickle EMD GP-35 GP-30 and even the GP 40s were. He called the GP-35 and GP-30 "pieces of junk".
Does any one have a drawing of a C-428? I think it would look like a short C-628 or a short C430. More later.
Does any one have a drawing of a C-428? I think it would look like a short C-628 or a short C430. More later.