WC's SD45 fleet sent to the scrapper

[wctransfer]

Six more WC SD45`s retired last week. 7496, 7510, 7512, 7517, 7585, and 7592.
End of an era. This last batch of 28 or so is going to be gone before you know it.

Alec

[nssr9169]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wctransfer

Six more WC SD45`s retired last week. 7496, 7510, 7512, 7517, 7585, and 7592.
End of an era. This last batch of 28 or so is going to be gone before you know it.

Alec

Just because they are sent to the scrapper or retired dosn't mean their gone........thats the best place to buy a locomotive..........from a scrapper who has two much back log to scrap the loco.............I have seen plenty of the 645's of ex. WC herritage up in nothern minnesota with leasing company markings...also a great way to get a loco. cheaplly......[:)]

[wctransfer]

The IMRL isnt a leasing locomotive. Thats Montana RailLink. But yes, if you got the dough, please buy one!

Alec

[Lord Atmo]

and buy 6620. if you work in a museum or know someone who does, get them to buy it. i'll come see it every year! possibly month if it's close enough. i love that locomotive

[coborn35]

I do, and would, but its not gonna happen...

[Lord Atmo]

why not? not enough money?

[Anonymous]

I love old locomotives, but when they got scrapped I get over with it.

It sucks honestly, but hey there are more important things to me such as college, girlfriend and working then my favorite locomotive, if you have a picture of that locomotive it will remain in your memory as long as you want it too...that s the way things work in life...

I have a picture of my home railroads S-2 and S-4 and one day those locomotives wont crank out anymore and will be replaced, but I will have that memory and I can live with it. My senior picture was taken on an Alco S-4 which will turn 60 next year! But when it's scrapped, there s nothing I can do about it. I can protest if I want to, but why? What s the point?

I can't buy it for it's scrap value ( 1 I have no money) and place it in my front yard, people will think Im a hillbilly or something (which in Southern Indiana, people can slap that label on you).

I love trains enough to photograph them and model them, ( I am still considering working as a trainmaster) but good lord my wife/girlfreind/mother would skin me alive if she/they saw an ALCO S-2 sitting on my/their lawn! Picture that, wife gets home from a hard day/night's work and there's me with a crane operator and a couple buddies dropping an Alco S-2 on to some tracks I made in the front lawn. She/They would either skin me alive or send me to the nuthouse!!! My family, friends and girlfriend all understand that I love trains, but to the point of buying one is overboard in both their minds and mine.

Before the scrappers scrapped it, I might get the horn or something that was of signifcance to me that could be put in my train room...but that s if I want to put the effort into it. Other than that, a picture will do.

Anyways, what Im getting at is this: It s a fact of life, things go away and never come back. Fires from steam engines go extinquished, horns dont sound anymore, crossing gates are abondened, rails are ripped up, girls leave you for a guy that is a total jerk, your pride and joy truck will somehow catch on fire, roll down the hill and your insurance won't claim it...but life goes on. It isn't going to stop because someone is left behind. It s totally unfair, it s sucks for all of us but if you constantly want to stay in the past, you end up losing grip of the present. Going back to the past every now and then isn't bad, but living in it kills your future.

"Frodo: I wi***he ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

[wctransfer]

My favorite 75XX series unit was sent down on train 118 with 2 CN units dead in tow also. WC 7505. Just traced it and it said it departed Argo at 2:58 AM. Does anyone know if this heads towards Markham,woodcrest,homewood? Get your pictures NOW.

Alec

[Lord Atmo]

well, insoutrail, i'd feel better about the whole thing if i COULD get a hold of part of that locomotive. but i think it's illegal to swipe parts off of them in the deadline and i live too far away. trains are my passion. i love them and i cant stand seeing nothing but the ugly widenose in the distant future. the scrapping of these SD45s was inevitable, but all i wanted was at least one to be preserved and displayed in a museum. all green bay has is some old Geep they once used. i'll take an SD45 over a geep any day. all the standard cabs are going away leaving me nothing to watch but widenose units. and not even being able to see a few in a museum or something bothers me to no end.

would i love to have a part of 6620? you bet! can it be done? no way!
yeah i'd love to have the horn or something. but how? i live in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (which may explain my love for the WC) and Illinois isnt exactly around the corner

my other idea was to get a hold of an HO scale WC SD45 and renumber it 6620 as a way to remember the locomotive, but of course no companies make that particular unit. 2 did. one had them as limited run for some stupid reason, and the other has the wrong nose colors. so i'm screwed there.

six six two zero.....

[nssr9169]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lord Atmo

why not? not enough money?

The Lake Superior Railroad Museam dosn't have the money.....But we could find it if we really wanted to.........

But since the last loco. we got from CN was SH** we will proably look else where......Plus the Museam dosn't want them for the same reasons as the railroads...........THEIR GAS HOGGS no matter if their turbo's are derated.

ALec I"m not stupid I know the IMRL unit is Montana Rail Link but it currently is being LEASED TO THE CN. As far as I've seen it its always on CN trains No MRL up here and it is a regular visitor to Duluth.....

[Lord Atmo]

lake superior railroad museum? is that in Duluth? if yes, you'd be pleased to know that that was the first railroad mueum i ever went to in my entire life. it was amazing. i remember it well. all those locomotives. i'm sorry to hear that CN would do that. maybe if you guys had that money, you could tell them they gyped you guys last time and they might not this time or something. i just want to see one of these SD45s preserved. just one. doesnt have to be 6620 though i'd love it if it was. just one preserved SD45. i cant stand to see them all die

[wctransfer]

WC 7505 arrived at Woodcrest at 7 this mornin......

"I have seen plenty of the 645's of ex. WC herritage up in nothern minnesota with leasing company markings"

Now, Kale, tell me that you didnt state that totally wrong. You said the engines have leasing markings, not BEING leased.

Alec

[Lord Atmo]

7505, gone. 6620, gone. i sure hope CN WILL donate the last one instead of scrapping it. i wish for once, a railroad company would do something for railfans that wouldnt hurt their business (IE scrapping the AC4400CWs and bringing back old SD units. that would probably do more than hurt business)

has there ever been an instance where CN has donated one of their retired locomotives to a railroad museum before? it's a shame that the only preserved WC unit thus far is a geep. i remember when i was at the green bay museum and watched a freight train pass through. it was headed by 3 WC SD45s (at least i think so. this was 1998. WC was alive and well at the time). but man that was fun.

[Anonymous]

Knowning CN I wouldn't keep your hopes up that one will be donated.

[Lord Atmo]

ugh... just...ugh...