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Re: Trucking Out An SD9 After Island Mountsin Tunnel Fire
Author: Erik H.
Date: 09-03-2017 - 21:57
Nudge Wrote:
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> They should just save the money and scrap it where it is. Its been too long to save much of
> anything. Take the money from the scraper and put it into something that has a chance to
> "work" another day.
I believe the locomotive had just been rebuilt at Sacramento, and therefore too valuable to scrap. I'm sure a beancounter at One Market Plaza compared the cost of moving the locomotive and the cost of scrapping, and decided to move the engine.
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> They should just save the money and scrap it where it is. Its been too long to save much of
> anything. Take the money from the scraper and put it into something that has a chance to
> "work" another day.
I believe the locomotive had just been rebuilt at Sacramento, and therefore too valuable to scrap. I'm sure a beancounter at One Market Plaza compared the cost of moving the locomotive and the cost of scrapping, and decided to move the engine.
