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[Anonymous]

Yay! Clap clap clap!!

[EJE818]

Well, there is some good news for DM&IR fans, the IC invasion has been called off for now due to the dymanic brake/straight air problem. CN is looking to find more suitable power for the DM&IR, so the DM&IR power still isn't safe. I haven't heard yet if they are still sending IC SD40-2s to the B&LE. It is planned to get rid of the DM&IR SD38s, SD38-2s, SDMs, SD40-3s from 410 upwards, and now on the retirement list are the two B&LE engines on the DM&IR, 903 and 909.

[WCfan]

Well, I'm going to be gone for the Holidays. I might not be able to get on the fourms. So, if I don't get on here, have a Merry Christmas every one.

[trainboyH16-44]

CN is looking to find more suitable power for the DM&IR

Ummmm....CN? HELLO? 

[oscaletrains]

CN is looking to find more suitable power for the DM&IR

Ummmm....CN? HELLO? 

 

CN is allways looking for power!

[EJE818]

If they are looking for power they should start reactivating retired engines. It is getting so bad at Homewood the tracks that are usually used to store business cars are being used for dead engines.

[WCL]

Heres 2 pix for ya EJE

 

[Anonymous]

Sweeeeeeeet!!!!!!

[EJE818]

I second that!

On another note, despite the very bad power shortages on the DM&IR, four more DM&IR engines, 202, 411, 417 and 869 are now in route to Homewood for the deadline, and no replacements for them are on the line at this time. The stupidity by CN will just not stop. It makes no sense.

[trainboyH16-44]

I just don't understand! I don't think they even have more ES44DCs or SD70M-2s on order, it's absolutely ridiculous! I had no idea a successful railway could be so damn counter-intuitive!

[coborn35]

Earlier this week a CN SD70M-2 was dropped of at Proctor for shop familierazation. They looked it over for awhile and then it left. Makes you wonder....

[B.Erdmann]

well if the weather cooperates tomorrow looks like im gonna go down to fond du lac & head towards milwaukee. idk how much ill get done in milwaukee but atleast something from fond du lac. with all the backups happening hopefully ill see something. i usually dont get to see.

 

[EJE818]

I thought CN would realize how power short they are on the DM&IR when they aborted the IC invasion, now all of a sudden not one or two, but FOUR more DM&IR engines are on their way to Woodcrest. That is a pretty big amount of engines considering DM&IR didn't have that large of a engine fleet to begin with.

Brent, I've heard about all the back-ups. Maybe if CN wasn't so power short that wouldn't be happening! The recent purge of engines from CN is just starting to show, and if SD70M-2s and GEVOs don't start being delivered soon it is just going to get worse. The retirements of all these engines is putting added work on the rest of the fleet, and if those engines start failing, CN will have put itself into a big hole that will be hard to get out of.

[Lord Atmo]

you know, what always got me about the DMIR's naming style was that they call those SD45T-2s "SD40-3"s. i know they were rebuilt and all, but they still have tunnel motors, and hence should be called "SD40T-3s". DMIR should've at least acknowledged the tunnel motors on them

[nssr9169]

They also called an SD-18 or SD-9 with a 567 block and 645 power assemblies a "SD-M" which I guess makes sense, but my guess for the sd40-3 designation is that the only thing that's different bout a "tunnel motor" is the radiator section, they are on the bottom not the top, otherwise everything else is just like an SD40 or 45, so my guess is that someone at DMIR thought that it would be simpler to just get rid of the "T"