im curious..and I do have some survival numbers for three railroads that owned GP35's,
so im going to work up some data:
NYC - had 31 GP35's, 1 survives, that's 3%
EL - had 36 GP35's, 2 survive, that's 6%
PRR - had 119 GP35's, 19 survive, that's 16%
That's pretty low for GP's..
Lets compare to some other GP's before the dash-2 line:
DL&W - had 20 GP7's, 4 survive, that's 20%
PRR - had 270 GP9's, 49 survive, that's 18%
NYC - had 160 GP9's, 38 survive, that's 24%
PC - had 265 GP38's, 133 survive, that's 50%
NYC - had 105 GP40's, 62 survive, that's 60%
PC - had 175 GP40's, 114 survive, that's 65%
not totally scientific, and not the full population of all locomotives, but yeah, its safe to say there was something negative about the GP35 specifically.
and we cant use age as a factor (saying the GP35 is older than the GP38 and GP40, therefore we should expect less GP35's due to age)
because the GP7's and GP9's are older than the GP35, and they have a higher survival rate..
and also now, 50 years later, the 1963 to 1966 production for the GP35, compared to 1966 to 1971 for the GP38 and GP40, isn't really a factor anymore.
a 5 year difference, 50 years later, doesn't mean much.
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