Leo_Ames Evidentally they're worth more intact than as parted out hulks that might be utilized as frame/running gear donors for yet another project. They're relatively young and surely would be a good fit somewhere, where as they were oddballs and apparently somewhat unsatisfactory in the service NS utilized them in. Union Pacific and BNSF roster over 100 3GS21B's for instance, so there has to be some decent value there as an intact locomotive. Will be interesting to see if any of the other low-emission oddballs follow shortly in being strickened. While the two RP20DB's are active, both RP14BD's and the single RP20CD are stored. And then there's the PR43C fleet that is sitting idle rusting away right now and while active, battery powered BP4 doesn't look to have been a complete success and likely isn't the prototype for an entire line of sisters.
Evidentally they're worth more intact than as parted out hulks that might be utilized as frame/running gear donors for yet another project.
They're relatively young and surely would be a good fit somewhere, where as they were oddballs and apparently somewhat unsatisfactory in the service NS utilized them in. Union Pacific and BNSF roster over 100 3GS21B's for instance, so there has to be some decent value there as an intact locomotive.
Will be interesting to see if any of the other low-emission oddballs follow shortly in being strickened. While the two RP20DB's are active, both RP14BD's and the single RP20CD are stored. And then there's the PR43C fleet that is sitting idle rusting away right now and while active, battery powered BP4 doesn't look to have been a complete success and likely isn't the prototype for an entire line of sisters.
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The plausible outlets are reporting that both 3GS21Bs and single 3GS21C have been retired and sold back to National Railway Equipment. This surprised me as I had expected the 3GS21Bs to be rebuilt into roadslugs and the 3GS21C fodder for the SD33ECO program... unless the deal is for NRE to send NS five SD40s/45s to fill out the SD33ECO program.
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