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Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
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Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:15:04 GMT
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> And what is all this blathering on about *non-American* diesels? America *is*
> diesels... <donning flame suit>
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> -John
Quite simple: The UK were there first. The diesel engines for the CN loco's
came from Hunslet, and Hunslet built the first really successful DE's in the
world, for some of the South American railways.
I don't argue the impossible, nothing is going to touch a DD40x, (or a Class
59!), but GM does not have a monopoly on the origins of diesels...they just had
bigger pockets than most!
(1/5th on delivery, rest on useage=death to ALCo and so on, who did not have
the pocketbooks to manage that financial trick...otherwise, steam would have
held out a lot longer, that and a few coal miners strikes)
James
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