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Old 01-22-2011, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by julianburke View Post
Like any other brand and the "servicemen" who have not been to any school of like model and get lost in it through not knowing how it works or to properly troubleshoot it, I suppose they would consider it "junk".
A corollary would be Fairbanks-Morse locomotives which gained a reputation as being troublesome, but the truth was revealed by Southern Pacific who used them exclusively on their Bay Area commuter runs and once the maintenance crews became familiar with the differences from EMD or Alco they discovered that they gave superior service. You can't fix a Ford with a Chevy part....hmm, you can't fix a Ford PERIOD LOL

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HEY FELLOW VKers. Keep one thing in mind! Motorola is still in business!
Not in the TV biz ;-) Hell, Studebaker is still in business for that matter: https://www.studebaker.com/name.html
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