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regarding the dash 9 being the best value as of today, these guys seem to have made their decision to buy emd as of these 1990 numbers. will they be inclined to switch to ge? i guess the clue is "...the UP buying 1000 sd70m 's ". <br />any way knowing nothing about the individual condition of these units or about their industry reputation, on behalf of the stockholders i would initially suggest culling the oldest units....say 6 of the gp9's and 12 of the gp30's. your earlier comment on rebuilt prices will lead me to hope i can get $150,000 per unit for a $900,000 total which i'll put to use for first year's maintainence. this leaves $10,000,000 to spend.... before leverage. as to leverage i'll put down $10,000,000 as 20% on a $50,000,000 order for 18 sd70mac's which seem to have done well in the ns coal fleet (bobwilcox needs). <br />this gives me more net power on the same number of units. the financing costs of around 6% and continuing maintainence will need to be carried on the units profitability in up coming years. <br />randy, you're the salesman in this exercize and the expert on the subject. where are we as far as the real world? what principles should the thread now deal with?
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