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MBTA F40PH-2C 1050 wrote:The F40 move is currently on the Grand Jct. heading over to the Southside, and straight to Middleboro. idk if they are going to use the WYE coming from the B&A and just straight shoot down there, or come into South Station...don't know the game plan when they get southsideForgive what may be a dumb question at this point, but where are they headed? Scrap? Sale?
ohalloranchris wrote:Storage, just like the MBB coaches stored at Seaview. They will eventually be put out to bid for re-sale or scrap (probably many from Column A, some from Column B), but it's customary to hold retired equipment in storage for a year-plus until the full order of new replacement equipment has passed certain in-service reliability milestones. Whether they'll stay in Rochester or if tightening space down there eventually forces a second move to Seaview in a few months remains to be seen; there's still a couple more retirements pending from the GP40MC revenue fleet, but they haven't narrowed down their final picks of which unlucky units those will be.MBTA F40PH-2C 1050 wrote:The F40 move is currently on the Grand Jct. heading over to the Southside, and straight to Middleboro. idk if they are going to use the WYE coming from the B&A and just straight shoot down there, or come into South Station...don't know the game plan when they get southsideForgive what may be a dumb question at this point, but where are they headed? Scrap? Sale?
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:1) What's going on in Billerica that they needed to clear out the space?They were stored on one of the Greater Boston Transload (GBT) tracks. There was less capacity for PAR to transload. Also, it appears there's some construction getting ready to take place in the northeastern corner of Iron Horse Park. Hay-bales/orange-construction-netting-thingies that are the hallmark of impending construction near waterways/wetlands has sprung up in the area.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Screamers are too big a fuel pig for very small excursion carriers because of the no-HEP/notch 8 operation. It also tends to be overkill on horsepower...Small tourist carriers like the Conway Scenic and Hobo railroads don't use HEP. If you can pull a train with a freight locomotive (which most of the little guys do), you can pull one with an F40 not in scream mode. The notable exception is the G&U which uses modern Commuter Rail equipment for its Polar Express train. Naturally, the easiest thing to do in that case is plug the train into an engine which is designed to power it. Similarly, the Maine Eastern train was powered by locomotives which were designed for and ran in passenger service and it was made up of cars that relied on HEP for lights and HVAC. No doubt that was more expensive to run than Conway's notch train, even when they weren't running a locomotive which used the prime mover for HEP. Even if you sent a stretch down to the Cape, they still would use the HEP generator for power on their dinner train. The CapeFlyer, on the other hand, might be better off with a borrowed in service Commuter Rail engine over a retired screamer.
CSRR573 wrote:Im assuming the F40s have dynamic braking? if so then i could see the CSRR preserving the 1000 as backup for the notchThere are no dynamics in the original fleet of F40s.