Serious injury Wrote:
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> Serious injury done to the engine block.
> Bureaucratic nonsense. Is there any point
> preserving the loco after this?
>
>
> Today, the South Coast Air Quality Management
> District (SCAQMD) visited the Central Maintenance
> Facility (CMF) to certify the engine block of
> Engine No. 800 was drilled, permanently disabling
> the engine. Engine No. 800 was removed from
> service with the arrival of the Tier 4
> locomotives. As part of a grant from the SCAQMD,
> older engines had to be permanently disabled.
>
> Engine No. 800 was the oldest, continuously active
> engine in Metrolink’s fleet having started its
> service in1981 in an Amtrak locomotive before
> coming to Metrolink in 2005.The community will be
> pleased to know their least favorite piece of
> equipment has taken it’s last ride.
>
> Tier 4 locomotives reduce emissions between 65 and
> 85 percent compared to older models, provide 64
> percent more horsepower than engines like No. 800
> and save engine fuel by 8 percent compared to
> their replacements. Currently, we have taken
> delivery of 23 Tier 4s with more on the way.
>
> We can look wistfully on the service that engine
> No. 800 gave us and how integral it was to the
> success we enjoy today. Let us now look to the
> future of safer, cleaner and more efficient rail
> service.
>
>
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>
> [www.metrolinktrains.com]
> eo-weekly-brief13/


Cock suckers.