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Posted by buddsilverliner269 on Thu Nov 28 10:33:18 2013, in response to Re: PHOTOS: Amtrak at Bristol, PA, posted by Joe V on Thu Nov 28 09:13:02 2013. Nice pics. Never heard anyone at work call them armadillos. They are bananas to any at amtrak. In fact in many cabs they are nicknamed with a name rhyming with banana like Anna banana. Lol. When the acs64s start coming online, the HHPS and aem7ac will be parked and the dc motors will be scrapped. The dc motors are already paid for and therefore can be scrapped. The remans will be part of a reserve fleet. Once the HHPS are pulled from service, that will be it for them. They cost amtrak a lot of money to run and in manpower hours because of there stays in the shop. It will actually be cheaper for amtrak to just park them and continue laying the mortgage on them instead of running them in service. Just an FYI, one of the first remans to get yanked from service will be the 918 because she's due to enter the shop in February to have its air brake system redone which happens every 3 years and apparently this cost a lot of money, so she will be the first to go on the remans. |
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