HATX/HLCX

[jcuknz]

Re. HATX only operating in East.
May 5th 2005 I saw a pair of GP-40 HATX804 and 805 operating at Antonito CO on what I gather is the San Luis Rio Grande shortline.
Seems I cannot upload picture .. sorry

[scharnhorst]

That's a possibility. Out here on the Atlantic coast of Canada, the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (owned by RailAmerica) operates all leased Helm equipment. All of the locomotives I've seen here are lettered HATX, as opposed to HLCX. Being in Atlantic Canada, the locomotives being Helm Atlantic Leasing makes a lot of sense.

The CBNS has been using four HLCX SD40-2's for about a year now as well as three LLPX GP15's and two LLPX GP38-2's.

LLPX is Locomotive Leasing Partners I think they mostley lease small 4 Axle units but like any leaser they more than likley got a few bigger units by now.

[ex-LLPLLC]

. . was sold by GM to GATX Capital in December of 2004 as a condition of the new EMD ownership. It is safe to assume that they now also the own rights to the LLPX designator. Locomotive Leasing Partners ceased to be a business with that sale.