If the Railfan & Railroad list is accurate on locomotives, there is sad news on that front. The two C&NW/Metra E8s at Silvis were both scrapped this week.

Photograph of former Metra EMD E8 521 (ex-CNW) being scrapped on March 3. 2021:
Railpictures #765282

I don't know about needing an MBA, your income must exceed your outgo. It is noble to want to save equipment. But outside of museums, if you have a common carrier railroad it has to, unfortunately, turn a profit. Gathering equipment and shortlines that don't make business sense is folly. I worked with a guy who worked with Ed, and I asked him about all the trouble they were getting into at least 5 or 6 years ago. He told me it was a lot of fun to work there! Fun doesn't pay your employees, suppliers, and for maintenance. There are a large number of people who lost their jobs. I worked in the marine industry for almost a decade. The saying is, a boat is a hole in the water you pour money in, a ship is an even bigger hole that you can't pour enough money in. Just ask the people who have to worry about taking care of museum ships. Getting in trouble over a $34 million FRA loan shows that things were not on the up and up.

You can see both of them in this drone video from last summer, between 11:00 and 12:00. The scrapper was probably just waiting on the go ahead from the trustee for the two E's, I wonder if anything other than the Chessie GP30 (which is now saved at the Lebanon Mason Monroe in Ohio) made it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qso1gQHst8M

In a motion filed Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado, trustee William A. Brandt reports a stalking horse bid for $7.5 million plus assumed liabilities from Midwest & Bluegrass Rail, which currently operates four short lines: the Chesapeake & Indiana, Vermillion Valley, Youngstown & Southeastern, and Camp Chase Railway. Any competing bids received by the May 21 deadline must be accompanied by a cash deposit of $500,000. If if no other bids are received, the stalking horse bid will be accepted. Additional qualifying bids will lead to a May 26 auction in Denver, with a hearing to approve sale to the winning bidder in bankruptcy court during the week of June 1.

The Midwest & Bluegrass offer is for the rail line, related structure, all locomotives and other rolling stock, operating contracts such as trackage rights agreements, the name “San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad, Inc.” and other intellectual property, and other facets of the railroad. It calls for the bankruptcy trustee to file for an abandonment exemption with both the court and Surface Transportation Board for the westernmost 29 miles of the railroad, west of Monte Vista, Colo.

The Midwest & Bluegrass offer ... calls for the bankruptcy trustee to file for an abandonment exemption with both the court and Surface Transportation Board for the westernmost 29 miles of the railroad, west of Monte Vista, Colo.

I got curious, and after some exploring on Google Maps I made a customer list for the SLRG. Not sure if it is 100% accurate as updated Google imagery is hard to come by in that area of Colorado.

As far as I can tell the two SD70M's (PRLX 4685 & PRLX 4687) and the F40M-2F (SLRG 459) are the current main motive power.