> > GE units of the U-series in particular are > extremely rare in operation - I've read there was no support for them when > old, like there is for EMD units or even ALCo's - it's along the lines of > owning a '55 Packard. You can't go down to Pep Boys and get many parts > for > one of those, nor can you go to many salvage yards and find parts for one. I work in the industrial automation business and I have been amazed at how GE "abandons" their older products. I am working with two major manufacturing customers who cannot get parts for their GE programmable controllers. GE's solution is for them to throw the whole thing out and buy a newer model - in one case a $150,000 project. Last week one of these customers was down and we literally had to buy a part on ebay to get them running again. If this policy is followed in the locomotive business I can see why there are so few older GE locomotives around. Tim The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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