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AP for the choo-choo's... CARB's locomotive emissions rule.
Author: READ MORE..
Date: 01-12-2024 - 17:46
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Hutching Wrote:
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> > At least those !@#$*% Germsets are toast!
> > Worthless junk! Thanks, Bob2
>
> Hutch actually posted a lot of really good stuff
> about trains, especially those big smokey diesels
> from "mother Russia"...
>
> Gensets and other low/zero emission locomotive
> control measures, especially as parts of legal
> settlements and agreements on things like
> exemptions for Ports projects, are here to stay.
> And, depending on the variable qualities of the
> particular manufacturer, a lot of Gensets
> generally seem to perform reasonably well.
>
> Do you have a specific example you can give? Are
> you a rail with a specific case you have
> encountered? Or, is it just another chance for
> posting a random rant?
UP PURGE OF GENSETS
MEKoch Wrote:
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> Would these gensets be suitable power for various
> shortlines? The shortlines usually have a
> mechanic who keeps track of the units and keeps
> them up and running.
>
> Sounds like the purchase price would also be
> favorable.
Union Pacific Purge of Gensets via Auction
milepost20
Union Pacific has hired Blackmon Auctions to supervise a sell off of its RP20GE fleet of genset locomotives.
Railpower built 98 of this model in 2007 for the UP. The auction is being held Nov. 9 at Metro East Industries
in E. St. Louis, IL. By clicking on "online bidding" at the following site they list a total of 85 locomotives which
we can probably assume is the entire remaining fleet:
[blackmonauctions.com]
Modesto & Empire Traction(CA) was the only other significant buyer of this model with nine units. RJ Corman
purchased Railpower after that firms bankruptcy.
EMDSW
MAYBE ... if you could pick up a few of them CHEAP... more than anything short lines need DEPENDABLE power...we wouldn't want to hire a TRUCK mechanic to follow one around in a hyrailer to keep one running!
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railcorp
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> Hutching Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > At least those !@#$*% Germsets are toast!
> > Worthless junk! Thanks, Bob2
>
> Hutch actually posted a lot of really good stuff
> about trains, especially those big smokey diesels
> from "mother Russia"...
>
> Gensets and other low/zero emission locomotive
> control measures, especially as parts of legal
> settlements and agreements on things like
> exemptions for Ports projects, are here to stay.
> And, depending on the variable qualities of the
> particular manufacturer, a lot of Gensets
> generally seem to perform reasonably well.
>
> Do you have a specific example you can give? Are
> you a rail with a specific case you have
> encountered? Or, is it just another chance for
> posting a random rant?
UP PURGE OF GENSETS
MEKoch Wrote:
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> Would these gensets be suitable power for various
> shortlines? The shortlines usually have a
> mechanic who keeps track of the units and keeps
> them up and running.
>
> Sounds like the purchase price would also be
> favorable.
Union Pacific Purge of Gensets via Auction
milepost20
Union Pacific has hired Blackmon Auctions to supervise a sell off of its RP20GE fleet of genset locomotives.
Railpower built 98 of this model in 2007 for the UP. The auction is being held Nov. 9 at Metro East Industries
in E. St. Louis, IL. By clicking on "online bidding" at the following site they list a total of 85 locomotives which
we can probably assume is the entire remaining fleet:
[blackmonauctions.com]
Modesto & Empire Traction(CA) was the only other significant buyer of this model with nine units. RJ Corman
purchased Railpower after that firms bankruptcy.
EMDSW
MAYBE ... if you could pick up a few of them CHEAP... more than anything short lines need DEPENDABLE power...we wouldn't want to hire a TRUCK mechanic to follow one around in a hyrailer to keep one running!
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railcorp
