As I understand from close sources in the MRL, your comment was after the IMRL ran the locomotives to the ground and failed to compensate the MRL properly for usage..I had the 200 and 215 while on working on the I & M Raillink. They won't be missed. Most all of that power the IMRL had was junk.
Travis
they were just surplus, no additional new power is coming. For a long time MRL maintained a large roster for the purpose of leasing out extra power, around 40-50 units total. A lot of those SD40/40-2 and SD45/45-2 and F45's spent a good deal of time in lease service on BNSF though there were other operators as well. The lease market just isn't the same as it was 5 years ago and there are plenty of SD40-2's out there awaiting a call to service should there be a need.So, were these surplus units? Is MRL purchasing new power to replace these?
that, & there's still ripples going though their fleet from the new SD70ACe's they purchased several years ago. What used to require 2 old locos can now be accomplished with one ACe- MRL's famous help sets on Bozeman & Mullan Passes that often times consited of 6 or more SD40/45's, & sometimes even requiring mid-train & end-of-train helper sets, can now be replaced with one helper set consiting of 3 or 4 ACe's.they were just surplus, no additional new power is coming. For a long time MRL maintained a large roster for the purpose of leasing out extra power, around 40-50 units total. A lot of those SD40/40-2 and SD45/45-2 and F45's spent a good deal of time in lease service on BNSF though there were other operators as well. The lease market just isn't the same as it was 5 years ago and there are plenty of SD40-2's out there awaiting a call to service should there be a need.
Bryan Jones
Brooks,KY
I started on the IMRL about a year after start up. Those locos were still failing all the time when I was there. Most all of the short term MRL locos the IMRL had were also junk. The SD40-2XR's and the SD45 and SD45-2. The IMRL had to return most of the short term leasors for other locos within weeks of receiving them, because they had probems with them. It had nothing to do with the IMRL running them into the ground. It hard to run any locos into the ground when they already were before the IMRL had them. Some of the long term leasors were good units, but most were junk. You really can't run a railroad with junk power. That is one of the reasons the IMRL failed among many other reasons I won't go into.As I understand from close sources in the MRL, your comment was after the IMRL ran the locomotives to the ground and failed to compensate the MRL properly for usage..
SP&SFan
Why do you say that?I had the 200 and 215 while on working on the I & M Raillink. They won't be missed. Most all of that power the IMRL had was junk.
Travis
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