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want it on the main line or anywhere near headquarters, but would keep it out as far as possible in the back coun- try, where it could do really useful work. My second dream was to make it so simple in construction and so devoid of Christmas-tree ornaments and oth- er whimsy that the price would be ma- terially below our standard main-line freight locomotives.” (from The Dil- worth Story, by Franklin M. Reck (Electro-Motive Division, General Mo-
one disappointment with the locomo- tive. Railroads liked their Geeps so much that they used them everywhere for everything. In January of 1954, EMD introduced the 1,750 h.p. GP9 to replace the GP7. With its 567C prime mover, the GP9 was a refinement of an already suc- cessful product. What the GP7 started, the GP9 finished. Steam was still com- mon in 1954. With a few exceptions, six years later it was a memory. Addition-
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