Re: UP E units
Author: Hot Water
Date: 09-01-2019 - 17:25
bOZITO Wrote:
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> Hail the 4014 Wrote:
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> > Nothing in Cheyenne works except hay we got the
> > 4014 which isn't steaming right so it has to be
> > pushed around all over the country. If the
> > fearless leader got his act together then at
> least
> > the 4014 could be pushed by the DD40X or the E
> > units that would be nice.
>
> Due to the fact that use of the DDA40X or the E
> units
> would be an admission that there was life before
> the
> great and all-powerful ego took over, it will
> never
> happen.
>
> Which explains why the last 8+ years have been
> devoted
> to erasing the evidence that anything existed
> prior to
> 2011. Park the heritage diesels, send the SW10 to
> scrap,
> park 3985 and cannibalize it, give away the
> restored
> caboose, destroy the high-speed boxcar, eliminate
> the
> souvenir program, get rid of all people associated
> with
> pre-2011 achievements and constantly bad-mouth and
> blame
> them, get rid of the logo and so on and so on and
> so on.
>
> The logical thing to do when they first brought
> 4014 back
> to Cheyenne would have been to do that chore with
> the 6936
> instead of 2 SD70Ms. The biggest of both steam
> and diesel
> together for the first time ever. The use 6936 as
> the pusher
> for the same reasons.
>
> But, Noooooooo.
One of the most logical and informative post I've see in quite awhile. Absolutely TRUE!