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Imagine UP Commemorating the Last SD40-2 Retirement ?
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Author:  NH0401 [ Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Imagine UP Commemorating the Last SD40-2 Retirement ?
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Author:  tomgears [ Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:52 am ]
Post subject:  SD40's in parks and restored for fantrips
Who would have ever thought that railfans would be excited about a SD-40-2? Now if a train rolls through town with a couple of SD-40s with no widecabs everyone is excited. Maybe one day one will be placed in a city park somewhere. Then 20 years later pulled out to be restored for fantrips.
Author:  Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SD40's in parks and restored for fantrips
Naaah. Not until all those smoky, noisy, exciting diesels are replaced by quiet, clean, efficient, soul-less nuclear/fuel cell locomotives or something similar. <:-)
Author:  robertjohndavis [ Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:32 am ]
Post subject:  EMDRe: Imagine UP Commemorating the Last SD40-2 Retirement ?
The neat thing about this is that the builder is involved, too. Maybe EMD and UP will team up. But do you mark the last unrebuilt SD40-2, or the last Franken-40, as there are going to be scores of those running around for years?

Rob
Author:  mxdata [ Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Nuclear powered locomotives
Going back to Alexander's posting, I really liked the design ALCO had for a PA1 look-alike powered by a nuclear reactor. Imagine the results of that thing being involved in a grade crossing accident in the middle of Chicago, or a wreck like the Amtrak/MBTA pileup at Back Bay Station in downtown Boston.
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