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chadb9 wrote:I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember Chuck Petlick starting the SD70 rumor last summer during the NERAIL picnic. The version he told me was 3 SD70s, not 26. He later admitted he was just trying to stir the s*** and see what he could get going.Yup, I remember that too. Three SD70M-2s would be around $9 million (plus tax!)... PAR could probably get 20-30 used units for that same amount of money, which is the more likely scenario.
MEC407 wrote:Several things tell me that the rumor about CP units is bogus, such as:Well CP has sold quite a number of SD40-2's (SD40-3's?) to DM&E, a regional out west. So who knows...
1) CP is power-short and needs everything that they already have;
2) I haven't heard anything about CP divesting itself of any of its SD40-2s -- in fact, they've purchased other roads' SD40-2s in recent history;
3) 99.9% of the rumors that originate "from around East Deerfield Yard" are bogus;
4) It's odd that the quantity of 26 would be used, just as it was a few months ago with the LTEX rumor. (So maybe it's the same rumor and somebody just inserted CP in place of LTEX...?)