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Sam Jumper posted:
Hot Water posted:

Sam Jumper,

For what it's worth, I wouldn't believe that author even if he stated that the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west! I'll double check it myself tonight. Plus, he NEVER, ever worked for EMC/EMD either.

Facts Jack. Were you there when this published event happened?

I gave you facts. When did it happen? I started with EMD in 1962, and worked for, and with, MANY of the original men from the WWII era, while learning from them as much as I could, before they retired.

 

Care to cite something to the contrary that’s not your opinion?

I did NOT give you any opinions. I told you the facts concerning how fully open EMC/EMD was with customers in the early days.

Nobody asked about your views on sun rises or sun sets.

Edit/added:

Apparently the author has never seen all the different drawings, Maintenance Instructions, and Modernization Recomendations (furnished to ANY and all customers) pertaining to how to rebuild/re-machine EMC/EMD major components/parts, how to layout a locomotive service & maintenance shop, nor how to purchase various service/maintenance tooling directly from EMC/EMD.

As far as the PRR "purchasing EMD", does ANYONE actually believe that General Motors Corporation would even consider such a thing, after investing all that money purchasing Electro-Motive Engineering Co. and Winton Engine Co. (both located in Cleveland, OH), back in the late 1920s/early 1930s? Then there was the huge investment in all that land in McCook, IL with the new factory designed and built by the Austin Co., completed in 1934.

I and the author wrote purchase EMD, etc ROAD UNITS. Nobody other than you mentioned PRR buying EMD as a whole at any time.

apparently misunderstood that part of your post since you said ".. then try to manufacture locomotives themselves in Altoona.".

 

 

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