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The older units have problems with reliability, the business is getting stuff from point A to point B and if a units goes down some where in route they can't take care of business. Also cost, two C44-9W can replace three SD40 and use less fuel and have fewer units to service. Then there is the EPA most older units if rebuild will not meet the tier-1 standards. And a locomotive is more then just a diesel engine there are all the other parts like traction motors that will have to be replace and then you just have an old unit and for just a bit more you can have a new reliable one. I to am sad to see the GE -7s go and many SD40s too but there are a lot of SD40 out there that will run for years to come, you and me may put them in a musem, but a rail road is in the transportation business and must have the best and most reliable units to move the trains and when there time comes the C44-9Ws and SD70Ms will be replaced with new units to. And about the old units going to the scrapper, their steel will be recycled into new steel, so think of it this way old locomotive don't die they just get reincarnated into new ones. <br /> <br />gwl <br />http://photosbygreg.20m.com
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