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Reply to "New Haven EP-5's"

Just my own opinion, but these locomotives were built with 1954 technology, and, during their service life, great advances were made in electric profile locomotives in Europe, where they were abundant.  That technology came to North America and made the EP-5 so obsolete that capital rebuilding was pointless.  Otherwise, these -- and the Virginian units -- might have been able to continue running for decades like some old diesel-electrics which have been rebuilt with more modern on-board technology.  I always wanted to see one, but never did.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

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