-> of the Navy, probably why they were such garbage. F-M and Winton
-> both realized
-> that putting diesels into fleet boats was a good place to act as a
-> test bed for
-> engines for railroad use. Alco did the same thing, but concentrated
-> more on surface ships.
  They had a lot of ALCO's on Tug Boats. The engine that fascinates me
was the Cooper-Bessemer with the "Throwover Cam" where you stopped the
engine and then started is in the Reverse direction to back down.
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