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Kelly Anderson

September 21, 2005 05:17AM

In 1946, NYC ran a series of tests that concluded that their S-1 Niagaras had a 21% total annual cost per mile advantage over 6000 HP diesels. The poppet valve version would have increased that advantage.
See Trains Magazine, June 1974, page 36.

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