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| Last updated on August 7, 2025
At least five Alco-built diesel switchers line up at Ford Motor Co.’s Dearborn, Mich., plant. Did you really think the automaker would buy locomotives from rival General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division?
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Ford later did really buy new EMD SW1001’s and various second hand SW’s.
EMD even put a picture of one of those SW1001’s in their -2 series databook. The Ford script name was airbrushed out but they left the big blue oval on the cab.