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I live in Salina, KS and I've noticed that we have 19 UP Locomotives in town. There are also tons of everytype of coal hoppers and covered hoppers loaded and empty. I'm also seeing tons of box cars mostly MP, railbox, CSX and others. Everything from 50' to 86' High cubes. Why would UP dump so much equipment here in town? We have a small maintenance area in fact the diesel tanks would even fill half of these locos up. In case your wondering they are GP-38's, C44-AC, C60-AC and SD40's The numbers are 3486, 3778, 6526, 4892,3342, 2430, 9325, 3312, 7516, 6787, 7256, 6825, 6416, 6710, 7250 6390, 2538, 2584, 2568. The town has several grain elevators and some small manufacturers that ship mainly by truck. In fact the Graves truck line was based here until they were bought out. Also there isn't a power plant here that uses coal for power so I'm wondering why there is a coal consist on the tracks for a week. We don't normally have more than 3 or 4 locomotives in town. So did the UP close down it's tracks west of here or what? thanks, DT PS I like the model trains because small mechanical things interest me in fact if I doesn't have 5 moving parts I'm not interested.
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