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Re: Trucking Out An SD9 After Island Mountsin Tunnel Fire
Author: ....
Date: 09-04-2017 - 10:05
Erik H. Wrote:
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> 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.
I think the post you are commenting on refers to the GP-9's currently stored in Eureka, not the economic justification for moving the SD-9's in 1979. See sklinck1's posting above.
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> Nudge Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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.
I think the post you are commenting on refers to the GP-9's currently stored in Eureka, not the economic justification for moving the SD-9's in 1979. See sklinck1's posting above.
