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Posted by WillD on Wed Feb 27 17:34:38 2013, in response to Re: Amtrak Locos into NYP, posted by 3-9 on Wed Feb 27 17:04:23 2013. It's difficult to say the Genesis locomotives were 'Tried and tested' in 1998 when the DM30ACs and DE30ACs entered service. The AMD-103, Dash 8-40BP, or B40-8MP had just entered service in 1992, and Amtrak's P32AC-DM followed three years later. The Genesis series certainly wasn't tried and tested in the early 1990s when the LIRR would have been making decisions regarding the future of their motive power. At that time EMD was still flogging the F69PHACs as an alternative to GE's passenger locomotives.For whatever reason EMD was able to convince the LIRR (and perhaps more importantly, key NY politicians) that their partnership with Super Steel would allow them to produce a locomotive in NY state able to run more effectively on third rail and thus operate in mixed traffic with EMUs. Of course the only promise that was kept was that they were indeed built in NYS but that was probably the important thing to the people that mattered. That LIRR got something of a dog was less important and by the time they realized that, it was too late. |
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