Hot Water Wrote:
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> I hate scrappers! Wrote:
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> > I read on a blog that BN traded an F-unit in to
> GE
> > in 1980. What is the point of trading in old,
> > worn out locomotives if they just get scrapped,
> > probably for no profit to GE? So many
> interesting
> > locomotives had that fate.
>
> What do you think happened to all those units that
> were "traded in" to EMD over some 20 or 30 years?


No idea. Some components perhaps recycled as cores. Perhaps deals were made on case by case basis. I see photos of Alco trucks re-used on EMD power that was then resold to the railroad. I assume most trade-ins were simply scrapped.

My questions remains, why did they "trade in" stuff, instead of just selling it to a metal scrapped directly? I suspect EMD/GE liked to get used power out of the market, hence the trade-in program.