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Universally, there was frustration with the lack of results their efforts would produce in so far as gaining or retaining profitable traffic due to equipment or service problems ...
One of the best books written on what went wrong with the PC is "The Wreck of the Penn Central" https://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Penn-Central-Joseph-Daughen/dp/0316095206/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=I have the hard copy of this book and it's quit an interesting read. The book talks about how the computer systems were never checked for comparability, resulting in lost waybills, plugged yards and shipments arriving late. How it was the Red Team against the Green Team. It seemed the only thing they did agree on is, The New Haven should not have been part of the Penn Central merger. Once the downhill spiral began, it was unstoppable.
Ed, Thanks for the credit at the end, great to know you and Josh like my scrap yard module.
One of those ex PRSL 38s has been in my wishlist for a while. The extended cab was the sticking point until recently. Now it's just my modeling bandwidth.
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/designsbyreese
Yup! That's the game changer right there. Someday, I want to do these, and I also want to do some former Reading SD45s, that also had that cab.But, for now, I'm too busy planting trees...
Ed, did you notice in that shapeways link there is a gondola cover ? Maybe would work for your Milwaukee car....
Everyone needs an extended cab GP38