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I had a friend who modeled NYC.    At some point early in the century, the NYC Historical Society held their annual convention in our city and he had his layout open for tours.     He modeled an NYC branch south of here, and a connection with the NYC mainline.    

His mainline power at the time was often an EMD F-unit, and an ALCO FA and this represented early 50s.   One of the visitors was a retired NYC employee who told him that was inaccurate.    He told my friend that NYC did not mix units from mfgs until after their rebuilds at about 15 years.    The reason he gave was stated above, incompatible MU connections.    So at the time he modeled when those units would be less than 15 years old, the NYC did not mix mfg.      The visitor told him that when the units went through a rebuild after about 15 years, the MU connections were standardized.

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