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GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways in 2006. Discussion relating to the current operations of the Boston & Maine, the Maine Central, and the Springfield Terminal railroads (as well as the Delaware & Hudson while it was under Guilford control until 1988). Official site can be found here: PANAMRAILWAYS.COM.

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Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by MEC407
 
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:What's the rough count/ratio of active leasers vs. active homegrowns on the current roster? I can't find a power roster online that isn't years old or that only counts stuff they own...whether it's here or elsewhere, living or dead/mostly-dead @ Waterville. Since the current strategy seems to be more leasers going in and more of their own going out on lease, I'd just like to wrap brain about what very approximate quantities we're talking thus far.
atholrail wrote:https://xa.yimg.com/df/GuilfordRailSigh ... e=download
Thanks for posting that link, atholrail.

I'm a little confused by the totals at the bottom, though. It shows 16 leased locomotives in service, but I see 19 in-service leasers listed in the body of the roster.

The total number of leasers, whether in service or not, is 27 according to the roster.

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by conductorvern
 
for some reason the link doesn't work for me.

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by GP40MC1118
 
MEC 507 has been released from Paducah Shops.
Now showing "waybill reported" PAL/Paducah

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Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by KSmitty
 
345 has "GATX OWNED" now stenciled below and behind the "MEC" marks. It looks really nice, with fresh paint and shiny new side mirrors. Pauducah did a nice job!

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by GP40MC1118
 
No....The 500 & 513 are supposed to be shipped on flatcars to
Paducah. One was loaded months ago, but remains at Waterville.

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Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by MEC407
 
Photo by Jeff J. Bray:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/611144/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by MECFAN
 
No....The 500 & 513 are supposed to be shipped on flatcars to
Paducah. One was loaded months ago, but remains at Waterville
Anybody heard any news / rumors on these two units. I had almost forgotten about them leaving.

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by csor2010
 
MEC407 wrote:Photo by Jeff J. Bray:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/611144/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oddly enough, GMTX 958 is apparently former NW 1342, which means it comes from the same batch of GP40s as MEC 370-380.
MECFAN wrote:No....The 500 & 513 are supposed to be shipped on flatcars to
Paducah. One was loaded months ago, but remains at Waterville


Anybody heard any news / rumors on these two units. I had almost forgotten about them leaving.
Here's what I could find on MEC 500:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4668763

The 513 has reports on it travelling on CSX as far as Ohio, but no photos or reports since then.

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by GP40MC1118
 
They were both basically scrap trade-ins or parts donors at LTEX. Don't expect
to see them on the road ever again...

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Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by MEC407
 
csor2010 wrote:
MEC407 wrote:Photo by Jeff J. Bray:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/611144/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Oddly enough, GMTX 958 is apparently former NW 1342, which means it comes from the same batch of GP40s as MEC 370-380.
Nice. That explains the new nose/windshields/numberboards/headlights.

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by 690
 
The headlight and numberboards were literally cut out of the old short hood, and welded to the new cab front (and they didn't bother leveling it).

Re: GATX (GMTX) & LTEX Locomotives on lease to PAR

  by MEC407
 
Here's what a stock high-nose GP40 headlight/numberboard setup looks like:
Screen Shot 2017-03-28 at 11.08.59.jpg
Maybe it's an optical illusion but the number boards on the 958 look smaller.
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