Easy Confusion

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Wabash had one GMD Geep (453?) and several GMD F-7s.

EdKing

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Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:24 PM
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Subject: Re: Re: Easy Confusion

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> 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 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) > wrote:
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> 
> 
> 
> 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) 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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