Its been reported at Trains Magazine's newswire that Union Pacific is going to be stripping useful parts off their h-engined SD90MAC's and scrapping the frame and possibly the engines.
I always kind of pictured a reengining program to place 710's in them, but I guess that's just too expensive and not a simple thing to do.
Anyone know if their 710 engined SD90MAC's may be the next to go? Seemed like they had a pretty large fleet, and I assume they're mostly identical besides the engine since they were designed to be easily convertible so they could be upgraded quickly with a h-engine when the design was perfected.
I'm surprised they couldn't export them, isn't China recieving large numbers of locomotives that use EMD's H-engine rated at 6,000hp?
I always kind of pictured a reengining program to place 710's in them, but I guess that's just too expensive and not a simple thing to do.
Anyone know if their 710 engined SD90MAC's may be the next to go? Seemed like they had a pretty large fleet, and I assume they're mostly identical besides the engine since they were designed to be easily convertible so they could be upgraded quickly with a h-engine when the design was perfected.
I'm surprised they couldn't export them, isn't China recieving large numbers of locomotives that use EMD's H-engine rated at 6,000hp?