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Re: LONG dead line @ Roseville.

Author: s

Date: 06-12-2008 - 21:26

I haven't been to a locomotive auction recently...Larrys Truck/Electric and some of the other dealers seem to have really BIG checkbooks and when you add the 10% buyers premium you can spend a lot of money real fast.

We have no need really for any 6-axle units; would really like to have acquired the ex-BNSF SW1000 the Modoc Northern picked up at the BNSF auction and had I known about it would probably have bid.

As to the salvage operations, we are always buying and scrapping something...the last several years we did half a dozen smaller track takeups...soe went to scrap; the rest we will use to upgrade our own track and scrap what we replace. With scrap now around $400/ton, we don't leave anything behind!!

The scrap market is so hot now that the availability of "stock" is often out of reach. We recently got a quote on 115 and 136 relay rail at around $850/ton; two weeeks later when we were ready to buy it was at $1,200/ton which really murdered our budget.

Regards, Sammie

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LONG dead line @ Roseville.	P.Kepler	06-08-2008 - 13:17
Re: LONG dead line @ Roseville.	shortline sammie	06-08-2008 - 19:18
Re: LONG dead line @ Roseville.	P.Kepler	06-09-2008 - 08:28
Re: LONG dead line @ Roseville.	J	06-09-2008 - 12:51
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Re: LONG dead line @ Roseville.	J	06-10-2008 - 14:17
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s Wrote:
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> I haven't been to a locomotive auction
> recently...Larrys Truck/Electric and some of the
> other dealers seem to have really BIG checkbooks
> and when you add the 10% buyers premium you can
> spend a lot of money real fast.
> 
> We have no need really for any 6-axle units; would
> really like to have acquired the ex-BNSF SW1000
> the Modoc Northern picked up at the BNSF auction
> and had I known about it would probably have bid.
> 
> As to the salvage operations, we are always buying
> and scrapping something...the last several years
> we did half a dozen smaller track takeups...soe
> went to scrap; the rest we will use to upgrade our
> own track and scrap what we replace.  With scrap
> now around $400/ton, we don't leave anything
> behind!!
> 
> The scrap market is so hot now that the
> availability of "stock" is often out of reach.  We
> recently got a quote on 115 and 136 relay rail at
> around $850/ton; two weeeks later when we were
> ready to buy it was at $1,200/ton which really
> murdered our budget.
> 
> Regards, Sammie

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