by 8th Notch
east point wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 1:58 pm This poster has a real concern about P-40 and P-42 retirements. It is the unbelievable number of grade crossing accidents. For me maybe Amtrak should use the GEs to be a sacrifice to the many tractor trailers that just love to get in front of any Amtrak train. So how to mitigate this problem. ? Just let the GEs lead a charger on all trains thus saving the Chargers from most but not all dumb vehicle drivers ? Unless a GE prime mover fails each train would have at least 2 sources for HEP.Amtrak is not going to keep the tired old P42s around just to play crash dummy and what makes you think that the engineers would prefer to run from the older beat P42 vs being in the newer Charger? Isn’t it a waste of money just to buy a new locomotive just to tuck it away behind a 30 year old one forever...