History
In the early 1960s the Reading Company sent 14 of their VO-1000s to General Motors Electro-Motive Division to have them rebuilt to SW900 specifications. Unlike the "Beep," however, these locomotives retained most of their original carbodies. The units were subsequently given the designation VO-1000m.
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