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Re: (erielack) ALCO plant farewell
GE got the railroads business in some cases by being the financier as
well (GE Credit). Some rumors have been posted on the net that they
low-balled other money vendors 'to get the order'.
I've seen others say it was because GE could deliver large quanities of
'built the same' units on schedule with a bit lower teething issues when
new.
Once over 10 years old or so GE's rattle themselves to death and
sometime thereafter become new razor blades. Plenty of older ALCO's
still running, many more than old GE's!
Mike
On 12/10/2010 04:12 PM, Montgomery, Edward T wrote:
> One thing I read on this site a while back was GE only had to "be better than ALCO" to put them out of business. I remember reading that ALCO units did not have standardized parts from one unit to another, sort of like DELL computers. They look the same on the outside and how they work but internally things were different.
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>> I've read a lot about Alco Products on this site and it appeared as though their quality control wasn't very good. GE just made a locomotive that was better than ALCO so it could compete with EMD.>
>> Secondly, the tax rates imposed on businesses in New York State may have contributed to other locomotive manufacturers and remanufacturers to avoid what might have been an excellent site location.
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> Funny, I don't think I've heard any railroaders having nice things to say about GE's U-series. But, I do believe I've heard some nice things about the Centuries. So that GE made a better product seems alittle hard to believe.
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