Way out in the wilds, away from the big depots, do they have loco RIP tracks… what happens with all the modern issues about spills/contamination?
(I mean the Class 1s not just shortlines with their own little machine shops…)
TIA [8D]
Every small city/town that a local works out of,they make LIGHT RUNNING REPAIRS and not general repairs…After all today a mechanic drives out to that yard and makes the repairs…In the days of steam the branch line engine house would make light running repairs and general servicing of the engine but,no heavy repairs.
Okay… so I’m thinking, how about a cracked truck frame… it won’t want to travel… what do they do with that sort of thing? Any similar examples?
When a PRR GG1 developed a bad bearing on one pony truck near the Strasburg Rail Road interchange, the engine was towed to the Strasburg shop which has a drop table. A new axle was shipped by truck to the shop and replaced. If the drop table had not been available the engine would have been placed on the siding and a hole dug under the truck and the axle replaced that way.
Now that would be a scene for a layout! All you’d need is the properly scaled shop foreman cussin’ a blue streak!