Winton engines where famous for powering a sizeable portion of the US submarine fleet in WWII and were very well thought of by their crews. The Navy used them in many applications.
Winton was merged with a railcar builder, Electro Motive Engineering Company and brought in to General Motors as their Electro Motive Division, remaining the dominant loco builder in North America pretty much through the 20th century, finally knocked off that top spot by General Electric.
They stuck with two-strokes through that era, from the late 20s up until just before the turn of the millennium when they tried a four-stroke, a disaster of an engine it turned out. They went back to two until very recently when emission requirements caused them to resurrect their four-stroke, sort it, polish it up, and that is what they are putting in their new stuff now.
Corporately, EMD was spun off by GM in the 90s, tried to go independent and pretty much lost everything with its Canadian subsidiary taking up the loco building game for a while before they too folded up in a heap in a labour dispute; they had been picked up by Progress Rail (themselves a subsidiary of Caterpillar) by then, and Cat told the labour union to get knotted and shut the Canadian operation. The remains were moved back to the US where they operate today.
Although their two-stroke locos aren't built anymore for emissions reasons, they are still supported as are the ones built for stationary and marine plants.
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