They brought good things to light...
I worked for GE Transportation as a field supervisor on the BNSF account, providing technical direction and parts for maintenance and repair of GE diesel locomotives. I could really go off about the corporate culture... but sticking to the "lean warehousing" (read as unavailability) of the simplest of parts... Thomas Edison, founder of GE invented the light bulb... but even if we had any, the damned headlight bulbs were Phillips bulbs made in China. I was seriously not impressed with the engineered durability of the newer locomotives... hard metal conduit for wiring to step lights and reservoir blowdowns was replaced with cheap junk split corrugated plastic wire looming. Sheet metal was lighter gauge... more plastic gilhoulies to break and then wait 2 days for parts and replace an entire starting switch assembly... or worse... be forced to waste labor "stealing parts" off of other units... I don't work for GE now... there simply was no way to have pride in the product... and if I tried to do the right thing and actually address Federal Safety Standard compliance issues, I was always left to fight my position holding the federal regs on the behalf of the customer... fighting with my own brainwsshed team that knew nothing about the actual business of railroading.
I don't miss it.