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To: DUMBGRUNT

Those look like relatively new engines. Less than 20 years old.

The newer engines have a lot more horsepower than the older ones. If they were replacing every retiring engine with a new one, it’s not a surprise that they’d have a surplus.

They can always be dispatched to localities to provide electric power in blackouts.

Does anybody know if the electronics on these things are tempest hardened?


4 posted on 04/28/2020 11:40:19 AM PDT by Westbrook
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To: Westbrook

Why would they need to be tempest? Do you know what tempest is?


6 posted on 04/28/2020 11:41:59 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Westbrook

Beat me by six minutes. LOL


11 posted on 04/28/2020 11:47:27 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Westbrook

They either get sold to other railroads/leasing companies , put in storage until needed, or sold to the scrapper


12 posted on 04/28/2020 11:48:30 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Westbrook
They can always be dispatched to localities to provide electric power in blackouts.

3.2 - 4.6 MW each. Made by GE which is currently owned by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GE_locomotives

34 posted on 04/28/2020 1:05:24 PM PDT by eldoradude (Boycott Chinese made goods)
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