BNSF now has 1350 locomotives stored

[karldotcom]

I took these pictures 2/22/09 at Commerce (CA) Intermodal Facility (which is now closed) of stored Dash 8s…

There are more pictures here at my Flickr feed

[coborn35]

Ridiculous.Loco’s everywhere and CN wanted us to pay $250,000 for an DMIR SD38.

[ericsp]

Check this out : Lots of stored locomotives.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=272705

Note that they’re right next to a busy highway (on the left), where lots of people can see them every day, notice that this line of locos is long and not moving, and maybe figure out what that means in terms of the economy and the rails’ role in the world, etc.

Better than having them side-lined out in the desert someplace, or on the “back track” of some yard.

Except that I hope this location isn’t too easy for the vandals, graffiti painters, and thieves of various kinds to get to them ?

• Paul North.

Those locomotives appear to be in the classification yard at West Colton. What is odd is that today I saw a UP local train being pulled by two SD40-2s.

[Lyon_Wonder]

BNSF SD60Ms in storage at Minneapolis, MN.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=268714&nseq=6&showcomments=true#comments

[Andrew_Falconer]

I have a newspaper photo with a caption of long strings of Black GP7s or GP9s stored back in the 1970’s. Those were about 20-25 year old Geeps at the time, so that made sense. This seems a bit similar since the SD60s and DASH 8s are about 20 years old now. What is happening looks like a cycle that repeats.

Andrew

[Awesome]

I took these pictures 2/22/09 at Commerce (CA) Intermodal Facility (which is now closed) of stored Dash 8s…

There are more pictures here at my Flickr feed

What is the Standard Operating Procedures when storing locomotives? Do they empty them from fuels or the service the unit (90 days) standard? I assume keep them lubricated.