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@GP40 posted:

Rusty's comments about the Phelps-Dodge GP9's from 1955 are supported here: http://www.railgoat.railfan.ne..._gp9/sp5872-5891.htm

This source references the Phelps-Dodge units as being a "customization and not a regular production feature". However it does not mention the source of that information.

C.J.

 

I can tell you for a fact that, since high short hoods were standard at the time at EMD, any customer change to that "standard" would have been an "extra cost" option. When the "Cost Estimating Group" within the Accounting Dept. eventually found that more and more customers would want, and did order, low-nose short hoods, at that point the high short hood then became an extra cost option.

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