The bumpin' continues. Dayshift has been strengthened. Sort of. But swing shift still manages ta 'make' no fewer than at least two units in spite of being raped...
While day shift manage exactly "0" most workdays. Surprising really. Actually, now on reflection, day shift hardly ever made more than one... We'd always clean up their mess, and finish up everything they couldn't, or wouldn't do... Maintenance, repairs, servicing, and outbounding power.
We've started ta say good bye to a few really older units... Switchers, old 40s...junkers.
And we expect ta receive for lay-up more high-HP units... SD-75s and a few more SD-60s... 'They' say at minimum 20 75s, along with the 20 or so 60s already parked and dead.
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Not sure locomotives get stored in the same places as airliners. Locomotives need tracks. Interbay yard has ample space to store a 100 locos or more. Since this is a relatively new development, these stored locos could sit a year without any expedited decay. The longer this scenario plays out and the BNSF "brainpower" comes up with "a plan" to move a unit train of DIT locos to a "dryer climate", I'd say they're OK where they are. Plus it's late spring heading into summer when it only rains 2-3 days a week.
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This week it only rained...uh, twice. Yep. Hence no need ta cover the stacks... 'They' call this the 'surge' fleet. For use when business takes a turn...up.
Personally I think it's a bias towards a GE only fleet of road power. Although on reflection, these gals [60s-70s-75s] have a better record of reliability than all the Dash-9s BNsf owns/leases. With at least 350 units laid up, and stored, more GEs are on order.
I'd opine, ya got money, spend it! Wisely.
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