Jerry474 Wrote:
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> Guys call it Alco, so I just did the same.
They probably know no better.
In that vein, 1992 at Helper, Utah I talked with the guy doing the loco servicing there, SP had assigned a pair of General Electric B-39-8's for the Soldier pushers and he said those locos had ALCO engines in them, he said simply because they sounded like the Utah Rly RSD's of old that were around Helper. I guess it was the separate cylinder head design vs the boxed EMD that he was used to with Rio Grande power that reinforced his notion.
Lucky he didn't try to order any spare parts.