Has anyone seen photos of M!'s in Mexico yet?

Has anyone seen what the Push pull trains made of old M1's yet

Peter

They are being used as scrap, not diesel hauled push-pull.

I was under the impression they were going to Mexico City for commuter service

Peter

They were sold for scrap metal, not for service use.

Yes! Here they are!



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Copied from "Altamont Press Railroad News"
[http://railroadnews.net/]
Can anyone provide the Eastern details of this
equipment move? What are the 450 cars?
"KCS extends business into Mexico with unique
move
"For more than a year, the Kansas City Southern
sales team of Steve Milligan, assistant vice
president international marketing, and Al Ortiz,
marketing account director in Mexico City, have
been working on securing a unique move of 450
carloads that illustrates the NAFTA Railway's
ability to extend service into Mexico. The first
move of old passenger cars to Bombardier of
Mexico began recently.
"The customer leased flat cars and welded track
panels on the cars. The rail passenger cars were
then loaded on the flat cars via a ramp in the
Fresh Pond Yard of the New York and Atlantic
Railway (LIRR) via Canadian Pacific to Norfolk
Southern at Meridian, MS. The cars then move from
Norfolk Southern at Meridian to KCS, Tex Mex and
finally TFM. - KCS News, courtesy Larry W. Grant"
[The routing must be a little garbled.]


( Copied from response by Russ, Moderator of The Railroad Forum In response to my posting)

Peter

Someone got their facts screwed up. The ramp in Fresh Pond was to unload new subway cars from Bombardier. The M1's are loaded at Hillside by LIRR.

Jay

Yes but they were sitting on the flat at Fresh pond on the NYA side

Peter

Here's a shot of an M-1 on a KCS train. Location unknown, somewhere out there. I found this shot on some Mexican rail-news website.
There is also a photo of an M-1 on a freight somewhere in Tennessee on railpictures.net.

-Tom

So they were sitting in the yard on a flatcar. So what. They weren't loaded there. Poor journalism. I think CBS News has a few openings for them if they'd like to move into TV.

Jay

Here's a shot at Jamaica with 2 sets on flats headed for Fresh Pond:



Date was November 16th, 2004 and car numbers were 9393/94 and 9295/96.