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 #1254996  by 4400Washboard
 
How's the R33 rider car scrapping going? Are any of the older R17/21/22 CWRs, De-Icers going soon also?
 #1258672  by R36 Combine Coach
 
Scrapping has ended as of January. Cars scrapped in the recent (2013) dispositions include 3 R30s (8424, 8425, 8463), the last R27 (8145), several Main Line R33s (8812-13, 8888-89, 9000-01 among), some single unit WF R33s (9314, 9317, 9320, 9328, 9338), one WE R36 set (9400-01, slated for restoration but replaced with GEs 9586-87 due to severe body issues), six R32s that were stored at Fresh Pond since 2010 (3370-71, 3630-31, 3836-37), plus some stored R42s (4550-51, 4616-17, 4620-21, 4674-75, 4704-05, 4738-39, 4784-85).

Disposition of the R44s was completed by May 2013. None of the older R17/21/22s seem to have been gone yet. In fact there is one R14 de-icer still going strong! The last mass scrapping in 2007 (during the reefing program) had claimed many R12, R14, R17, R21 and R22 cars.
 #1260771  by 4400Washboard
 
There's still an R14?!?! It makes more sense to scrap all the older cars, and keep the newer ones. Why'd they store a couple R32s and R42s just to scrap them???