Hot Water posted:Sam Jumper posted:Dominic Mazoch posted:The OP's worked better in the Bay Area also because they were all grouped in te same shop.
IC I think was going to buy some FM's and the right to build them?
It was PRR who wanted rights to build the FM H-24-66 Trainmaster. PRR was also supposedly spying on or poorly trying to spy on EMD and their manufacturing. Pennsy management was really all over the place.
And just how do you document THAT? Any and all railroad customers could tour the EMC/EMD McCook manufacturing facility any time they requested. In fact, part of the EMD Service Depart Training Center classes INCLUDED an extensive plant tour for EVERY CLASS!
It took me a bit to site this, but since you’re ALWAYS right.....Black Gold - Black Diamonds The Pennsylvania Railroad And Dieselization by Eric Hirsmaki pages 166-167. Third paragraph of Operation Trojan Iron Horse reads in part “... Pennsylvania employees, who were touring the plant, taking unusual interest in the tools and manufacturing methods EMD used in the Transmission Department. Their tour guide even asked certain members of the group to cease making sketches of the jigs being used. The visitors questions were very pointed and covered topics only people interested in manufacturing the parts would ask”. The rest tells of PRR plans to buy EMD, F-M, Baldwin, and Alco road units, then try to manufacture locomotives themselves in Altoona.
Feel free to prove the author wrong.
