@GG1 4877 posted:As I recall the ALP44s didn't serve NJT very well in commuter service hence their early retirement. They also have been sitting idle since 2012 whereas the AEM7 fleet was maintained up until 2017.
The other untapped reserve of passenger locomotives is the now idle fleet of former NdeM E60C-2s that were purchased by the Black Mesa & Lake Powell railroad. They became idle in 2019 when the power plant they served was closed.
I'll have to follow this story more closely. It will be interesting to see these locomotives testing and a new lease on life for older equipment is always good to see.
I was commuting back and forth to college when I took this photo of a toaster:
The ALP44s were decent locomotives when they were new. The maintenance left something to be desired as Transit basically ran the guts out of them.
As they sit now, they are basically good for scrap and that’s about it. It would be interesting to see them resurrected in the future though, by an agency with deep pockets…
Tom
