Re: PC: What killed PC?

[alcoman <alcoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 Gene.Fusco -AT- lsil.com wrote:

> 
> > agree with your choice of power the PC would have had. PC did prefer 
> > ALCO's and GE's over EMD's.
> 
> Did it really? I was under the opposite impression.
> 
> Alco was history by 1969.
> 
> Close to 500 GP38 locos were purchased vs the U23B 
> 
> Far more SD40 and SD45 locos were picked up by PC than the comparable
> U-Boat or Century six axles.
> 
> GM didn't have a switcher option to compete with the SW1200 or SW1500 that
> PC bought scores of to replace aging Alco S1,2,3 & 4 locos.

SW1200 and SW1500's were made by GM if my failing memory serves me
correctly


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> I only speak to the diesel market of 1968-1976, though.  Had PC survived to
> the present day, It would have a mix of power roughly equivalent to what
> Conrail has currently.
> 
> Nothing PC could do would have saved Alco.  Too bad, since I think Alco had
> the best style department of the Loco makers. (With the sole exception of
> the GP30 :^)
> 
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