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Hol - Thanks for all the information on these assignments. Your theory about the restriction of the Baldwins and ALCOs makes sense, and I'd suspected something like "mistrust" was behind it, although it's not clear whether there was any empirical basis for it, since you say both classes performed well and don't mention any greater mechanical problems than their EMD counterparts. It also probably made sense to the Mechanical Department to keep each of these 2 classes together as much as possible, so that local shop crews might develop more familiarity with them and also perhaps be able to swap or cannibalize parts in a pinch. I'd known the ALCOs were used for transfer runs in Denver but not that the VO-1000's ever were in train service. Nor that they ever were assigned to Denver. Regarding Nelson's point about their time in Burlington, IA, I recall reading somewhere (probably in a posting here some years back) that one of them sometimes served as a pusher to help some trains up West Burlington Hill. Jonathan __._,_.___ Posted by: jonathanharris@earthlink.net __,_._,___ |