by daylight4449
KSmitty wrote:Any news on the 690?when i said BOTH the SD26s, i meant both. the've already had engine components removed (i.e the prime mover). it definitely seems like pan am wants to see them preserved
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KSmitty wrote:Any news on the 690?when i said BOTH the SD26s, i meant both. the've already had engine components removed (i.e the prime mover). it definitely seems like pan am wants to see them preserved
Did we ever hear a music sweeter than the one that thrills, as it floats along the Deerfield, as it echoes o'er the hills.-E. A. Fitch
How we watch that little engine as it stalks across the plain; was there ever music sweeter, was there ever sight completer, than the coming of the train?
daylight4449 wrote:based on what my contact at pan am said, he thinks...He thinks being the key, not to open an argument, but you will find that Pan Am is a company filled with many railfans. While it may be your contacts personal preference to see the locomotives preserved, I have a hard time seeing Pan Am wanting them preserved, they simply want the most on their investment. The SD26 fleet has probably been paid for in scrap value already, considering they have scrapped 33(?) already. If they really wanted them preserved they would donate them and still come out ok on the SD26 deal. They bought 35 and scrapped most just a few short years into their time with Guilford, just a guess but the mass extinction of SD26's by 1994 should have recovered most of the original investment.
Tim Mullins wrote:Are there any updated photos of the 621,643 at Waterville? I understand they are "white lined".There's photos around from a couple months back on nerail showing the units are already in the cannibalizing process. Missing middle axles, missing headlamps, y'know the beginning of the downfall.
daylight4449 wrote:so they're doomed. my fellow railfans, an end of an era is upon us. an era without the SD26is it just me, or am i the only person who thinks that this sounds highly, well, confusing?
daylight4449 wrote:What seems confusing? I presume you mean the SD26's being scrapped, there is nothing confusing about this to me. They are old worn out beasts. With 20 "new" locomotives on the property I surprised we still see a few of the GP9's. They keep talking about being a 40 series railroad. And honestly, I really think if they repaired the dead GP40's they have at Waterville they could achieve that goal.daylight4449 wrote:so they're doomed. my fellow railfans, an end of an era is upon us. an era without the SD26is it just me, or am i the only person who thinks that this sounds highly, well, confusing?