Engineer-Joe posted:Well? Just looking in here.
You've got the frame already built, bogie and traction motors in place, couldn't someone replace the main drive components (engine and generator) and sell them at a profit? Too much work and costs vs. profit?
…" When I visited there recently a mechanic for Mid-America Locomotives (a locomotive re-builder and second-hand locomotive dealer) from Evansville, IN., was inspecting them. "
UP said dump them? I didn't know this happened. Wow seems like a shame.
Have other mainline RRs scrap theirs as well?
I did a little reading; apparently these first gensets, at least some of them, were built on the frames of Dash 7s that UP retired. http://www.trainweb.org/genset...lpower/upy/2693.html The cores would have been approaching the end of their 20-year mainline service lives anyway, so I don't think anyone is going to try and rebuild close to 30-year-old GE parts.
Regarding other railroads, I can't speak for CSX (which I think has 3 gensets), but according to Chris Toth's NSDash9.com website, NS's 7 gensets (the 300 and 301 3GS21B, two RP20BDs, two RP14BDs (cabless), and one RP20CD) are stored, and have been since at least 2017, when I started using his site. I also came across a PowerPoint from NS online a few years back explaining that rebuilding older 4-axle power made more sense operationally.
