@Sam Jumper posted:In a Youtube video titled NYC Water Level Route the narrator states that the NYC Niagara “equaled the economies of diesels”. Could this be accurate in some way? Maybe there should’ve been a asterisk with a note that if it wasn’t for the cost of labor or something, THEN the economies would’ve matched diesels? NYC of course scrapped its steam fleet and bought hundreds of new diesels.
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@Sam Jumper posted:In a Youtube video titled NYC Water Level Route the narrator states that the NYC Niagara “equaled the economies of diesels”. Could this be accurate in some way? Maybe there should’ve been a asterisk with a note that if it wasn’t for the cost of labor or something, THEN the economies would’ve matched diesels? NYC of course scrapped its steam fleet and bought hundreds of new diesels.
The world is full of ignorant narrators. We used to have a rule of thumb (1970's) that one third of anything about railroads in the public press was wrong, probably an underestimate. I think the percentage has increased. Thay Utube statement is a good example.
