Wondering if any one runs lease power on there layouts.
I for one would like some CEFX. Whats on your layout or do you run any?
I might get some sometime.
Victor
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CSX and Conrail once in a while. Have been thinking about buying NS as well. Have been seeing those around here a lot lately.
Tracklayer
I just bought my first Lease loco to be put in consist with my NS that I have. It is a Kato SD90/45 from SEFX and looks great. It is a little too big for my South Massey freights but that is what a NS GP35 is hanging out on my layout for [:D] So when I get back home to VA I will be using some CEFX power.
It may not be leased power. One road may be paying back electrical hours to the other one. When I lived in the Nebraska Panhandle we saw a lot of Santa Fe power on the BN (long before BNSF was on the horizon). Santa Fe had borrowed some BN units and while on the ATSF they generated X number of kilowatt hours. Later ATSF sent units to BN who used them til they had generated the same number of kilowatt hours.
On modern roads it could also simply be run through agreements. Maybe an eastern road like CSX tells a shipper back east that they will get that shippers stuff to the west coast by a given time, all on one invoice. The hand it off to UP in St. Louis, for example,
and the “sharing of the spoils” is handled between the two roads. Power from both CSX and UP might appear on the point of such a train. Railroading is, first and formost, a business. Thinking through what you see from a business standpoint may very well explain why you saw what you saw better than a lot of the model railroading made up stuff you hear from time to time.
Now to answer you question, sort of, yes I run power from other roads on my layout.
Cheers,
Ed
My shortline leases small Geeps from the BN and SOO from time to time to supplement our small roster of EMD switchers. My time frame is too old to include units from CEFX (1983) or LTEX and the newer companies. If I plan to move my layout ahead 10 years, I’ll have to look at including more lease units from Helm or EMDX. I’ve even thought of including a rebuilder/lessors’s shops on my railroad like a small VMV or Silvis to give me a place to store some older power that I have.
Not really a lease but on my layout the NYC, NKP & ccc&st were all still on the same team well into the late 50’s. Easier to get loco’s when you have a choice. Don’t find much of the Big Four as far as rolling stock unfortunately.
Terry[8D]
All the time.
I have a GATX GP40-2 plus a bunch of UP, C&NW units.
Gordon
i need to also get some bn engines for lease power been seeing them everyonce in a while.
My shortline was owned by the Western Pacific, and so in peak seasons they borrow WP’s older motive power, mostly smaller switchers that can handle sharp curves.
Yes: Three C&O Steam Engines (2-6-6-6, 2-10-4 and a 2-8-4) One UP FEF-3
I have 5 Oakway/EMD Leasers (3 SD40-2s, an SD60, and a GP38-2) 2 GATX Leasers (2 SD40-2s) and one LMX Leaser (A B32-8)
james
I have a couple of GATX, one LMX, and a couple of GECX. I have decals to do some FURX stuff. Just haven’t had the time to do it yet.
Hey now, theres no such thing as too big[:D]
but to awnser your question, yea I have 2 CEFX units, One SD-90/45 and an AC4400CW.
They both are really awsome, I plan on using them with my up SD-90’s and GE AC unites for my coal trains.
In one sense all my locos are or have been leased as I purchased most with a credit card and technically my bank owned them [:D]
Seriously, I have a friend with whom I swap locos from time to time so we both have lease units.
Bob DeWoody
HEHEHEHE that good!
I would like to lease some. as these things keep going up in price to where they are getting less disierable to buy. I would seriously like some Lease units for my RR like FURX or EMD lease type newer deisels.
glad others use lease power. i have to buy some more.
i have 2 GATX sd40-2s an EMD lease gp38-2 and decals to do FURX as well plus some foreign pool power units,
tom