octr202 wrote:I'm sure many of us expected the GP40MCs to go first, but perhaps the -2C's were really in worse shape. That fleet seems to be what's getting sidelined now that the HSPs are on the property.
Hopefully they're being stored properly so they can be rehabbed easily if there's another power shortage.
The considerably younger PHM-2C's are getting hit hard too. Right now it's 7 of the circa-'87-88 -2C's out for major engine repairs, and 3 of the circa-'91-93 PHM's out for major repair. That's the first time the casualties have hit double-digit units, so they're falling further and further behind the pace on repairs. To hear the employees tell it on other threads, the Geeps are in pretty abysmal shape overall. I imagine the current dead line makeup is chalked up to little more than dumb luck that the Geeps have somehow avoided the repair queue and bad luck that the -2C's have been hit extra-hard.
Something has to give here. Falling far behind pace on the long-term OOS backlog during spring harms their ability to catch up before summer heat's extra strain on HEP loads starts affecting uptime on the more brittle in-service units, dumping a new surge of day-to-day aches and pains on BET's lap. Maybe it's time to ring up P&W's shop for some outsource work if they're that short-staffed or short on shop space to be able to handle a taken-apart engine tying up a garage bay for weeks at a time.
