Ralph's locomotive repair.

[Murphy Siding]

       I wish I had written the name down, but alas, I did not.  A couple weeks back I saw a big truck in Brookings S.D. The old DM&E runs through Brookings. The truck had the name of some locomotive repair company. The signage suggested that it was a mobile repair truck that could go to where your broken locomotive was sitting.

     This appeared to be a privately owned company that perhaps contracted out to railroads.  I thought that each railroad had its own repairmen. Is it common to sub that work out?

[BaltACD]

Murphy Siding

       I wish I had written the name down, but alas, I did not.  A couple weeks back I saw a big truck in Brookings S.D. The old DM&E runs through Brookings. The truck had the name of some locomotive repair company. The signage suggested that it was a mobile repair truck that could go to where your broken locomotive was sitting.

     This appeared to be a privately owned company that perhaps contracted out to railroads.  I thought that each railroad had its own repairmen. Is it common to sub that work out?

Considering your area of the country, it may have been

http://www.jessupdiesel.com/services.html

Short Line operators rarely have the resources to do more than add fuel and sand to their locomotives.

[ACY Tom]

Murphy Siding

       I wish I had written the name down, but alas, I did not.  A couple weeks back I saw a big truck in Brookings S.D. The old DM&E runs through Brookings. The truck had the name of some locomotive repair company. The signage suggested that it was a mobile repair truck that could go to where your broken locomotive was sitting.

     This appeared to be a privately owned company that perhaps contracted out to railroads.  I thought that each railroad had its own repairmen. Is it common to sub that work out?

 

Is that a subsidiary of Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery in Lake Wobegone? 

Tom

[mudchicken]

Independent Locomotive Services (ILSX) or Larry's Truck Electric (LTEX) ?........ (both come with very large lease fleets) .... very common to see them out here along with OmniTrax's locomotive bubbas (can't shoot straight gang)