Said it before...Back in the '30s, EMC said that the Diesel would do twice the work of steam at half the cost. Back then probably true, but by 1956, it had to be ten times the work at one tenth the cost. The fantastic GEEP nine was just a part of the equation. Take a close look, everything you could imagine, both direct and indirect was piling up against the use of steam power ...anywhere and everywhere! I mentioned the PRR Sandusky Line. Here was a place where big steam could likely hold it's own against Diesel competition in certain categories of performance, and yet, it wouldn't make a lick of difference in the big picture. FWIW, even if the Big Jay could have single handedly wrestled 12K tons west bound up the Pittsburgh Div., it would not have saved PRR steam for five more minutes. It was that cut, that dry, and that brutal !
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