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Re: How exactly did the D&H PA’s end up with the Mexicans??
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 11-11-2019 - 09:34
Curious Wrote:
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> A thread on TO has this speculation, but it
> doesn’t add up.
>
> “As I have heard both the terms "leased" and
> "sold" regarding the Mexican transaction I suspect
> they were sold to a leasing company which in turn
> leased them to the Mexican carrier. Let me be
> careful to label this as speculation as that's all
> it is.”
>
> Anyone have the straight dope on how the PA’s got
> away so easily? It was 1978. Was the
> foamer/preservation/Trains Magazine community in
> an uproar when this dirty deed was done?
They were included in D&H's 1978 mass sale of six-axle ALCo, EMD and GE units to dealer Diesel Supply International, who immediately leased them to Mexico. I don't recall if it was a "lease/purchase" arrangement, but none of the units were intended to be returned to the USA.
One of the C-628s, ex-D&H 605 I think, is (as of a year or so ago) in a railroad museum in Yucatan, and one of the SD45s, which was one of the three (of the four) ex-EMD demonstrators D&H bought, was reported to be retired but still mostly intact a few years ago.
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> A thread on TO has this speculation, but it
> doesn’t add up.
>
> “As I have heard both the terms "leased" and
> "sold" regarding the Mexican transaction I suspect
> they were sold to a leasing company which in turn
> leased them to the Mexican carrier. Let me be
> careful to label this as speculation as that's all
> it is.”
>
> Anyone have the straight dope on how the PA’s got
> away so easily? It was 1978. Was the
> foamer/preservation/Trains Magazine community in
> an uproar when this dirty deed was done?
They were included in D&H's 1978 mass sale of six-axle ALCo, EMD and GE units to dealer Diesel Supply International, who immediately leased them to Mexico. I don't recall if it was a "lease/purchase" arrangement, but none of the units were intended to be returned to the USA.
One of the C-628s, ex-D&H 605 I think, is (as of a year or so ago) in a railroad museum in Yucatan, and one of the SD45s, which was one of the three (of the four) ex-EMD demonstrators D&H bought, was reported to be retired but still mostly intact a few years ago.
