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Re: BN F-units traded in to GE?

Author: I hate scrappers!

Date: 12-18-2020 - 15:31

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.

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I hate scrappers! Wrote:
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> Hot Water Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I hate scrappers! Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> > -----
> > > 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.

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