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Reader#108 wrote:Too bad they ripped up all the tracks through Saugus and Lynn....they could have used them as test areas.....or at least to have parts delivered by rail, etc....the tracks next to the facility are T commuter rail I believeThey've still got an active siding on the former northbound wye to the Saugus Branch. Google Satellite shows tanker cars sitting on it. The 3rd mainline track that runs from the end of the drawbridge onto the wye also looks like at one point is had more tracks splitting off it into the plant. Wouldn't take much effort to throw something down that veered closer to the plant.
They've still got an active siding on the former northbound wye to the Saugus Branch. Google Satellite shows tanker cars sitting on it. The 3rd mainline track that runs from the end of the drawbridge onto the wye also looks like at one point is had more tracks splitting off it into the plant. Wouldn't take much effort to throw something down that veered closer to the plant.There was never a wye there. The tank cars you see were parts of two T rail wash sets that spent time there last Fall.
They've still got an active siding on the former northbound wye to the Saugus Branch. Google Satellite shows tanker cars sitting on it. The 3rd mainline track that runs from the end of the drawbridge onto the wye also looks like at one point is had more tracks splitting off it into the plant. Wouldn't take much effort to throw something down that veered closer to the plant.At one time there was an active yard there. Tracks ran all through the GE facility, even out to a siding parallel to Western Avenue. You can see some of the traces of rails by looking closely at the Google image.
trainsinmaine wrote:'Scuse me for being out of the loop --- does GE still have a locomotive facility in Scotia, or is everything done in Grove City?GE builds locos in Erie, Pa. Grove City, PA is where the engines are manufactured
GoErie.com wrote:"When a customer comes to us and asks for a quick turnaround, or there is a spike in production that you can't meet quickly in Erie, you have a choice: to respond quickly or not participate in that growth," said Stephan Koller, a spokesman for the company.Read more at: http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art ... /304019877
GE Transportation believes an alternate manufacturing site -- the company is looking at more than one site -- might address the problem.
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Roger Zaczyk, interim president of Local 506 of the United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers, said he's not sure why local workers can't pick up that slack.
As recently as 2007, the local plant built 911 locomotives in a year. In 2010, with demand low, it built 370.
"We were able to do 1,000," Zaczyk said. "Now they're saying we need this for overflow, and we don't expect to do more than 500 here. What changed?"
