Easy Confusion

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Y'all are missing the point of the exchange.  Nobody was excited over  ALCO 
vs MLW.  My comment had to do with whether MLW was a subsidiary of  ALCO or 
a licensee.  As it happened, we were both right, depending on the  time 
frame.
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 6/18/2014 6:58:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

 
I have been in agreement with your comments since this  started.  Jerry 
Pinkepank's "The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide" lumps the ALCO and MLW  
locomotives into one chapter. Andy Romano's "Dragon Steel:  The ALCO action Album"  
includes the MLW units.  The same is true of R. Craig Rutherford's  "ALCO's 
FA - Running in the Shadow".  
 

The FPA-4 may have been build by MLW, but it was an ALCO design.
 
Dick Dunford
Blacksburg VA
 

On 06/17/14,  NW Mailing List<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>  wrote:  

Personally I  think this is rivet counting and splitting hairs taken to the 
extreme. I  posted 2 shots of this unit on RailPictures and  had several 
people contact me saying that it was an MLW, not an Alco... ok. Technically  
correct. But I dont see people emailing over the thousands of Canadian EMD 
units for CP, CN, etc produced in Canada  by Subsidary GMD Canada or whatever 
it was  called. I personally wouldnt waste my time doing  something like 
that.
-T. Nolen, TPA,  FL.

---- NW Mailing List <_nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org_ 
(mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org) > wrote:  
> Mike:
> 
> You are correct.  My comment was based on circumstances much later in 
> their respective  histories.
> 
> Thanks for doing the research.
> 
>  Dave
> 
> 
> In a message  dated 6/12/2014 4:18:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> _nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org_ (mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org)   writes:
> 
> Dave,
> 
>  
> Seems like a quick check of ALCO history on the internet indicates MLW 
was 
> once a subsidiary.  Of course, the complete downhill record of ALCO  is 
full 
> of take-overs and loss of important partnerships.
>  
> 
> Mike Pierry, Jr.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jun 12, 2014, at 12:19 PM, NW Mailing List __nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org_ 
(mailto:_nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org) _ 
>  (mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org) >  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mike:
> 
> You are correct, it's a MLW.  However, they were an independent company, 
a 
> licensee of ALCO, not a  subsidiary.
> 
> Dave Phelps
> 
> 
> 
> In a message  dated 6/12/2014 11:56:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> __nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org_ (mailto:_nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org) _ 
(mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org)  writes:
> 
> 
> The CN at Spencer was not an ALCO. I posted  this photo to 
> _Railpictures.net_ (http://railpictures.net/) and in short order had a  
correction comment 
> submitted advising me that ALCO never made a  FPA-4. They were built by 
MLW 
> (which was, of course, a subsidiary of  ALCO). I corrected my entry but 
note 
> that other, later, posting of  the same loco are calling it an ALCO.
>  
> 
> Mike Pierry,Jr.
> 
> Moderator:
> http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2014/20140612.MLW_Spencer.jpg
> 
> 
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