Maybe they need more new ones?
A question that needs answering. Is the frantic pace of USA loco building causing parts suppliers not to deliver spare parts to various RRs ? If this is the case then locos sent out either have to cannibalize other units or go out with a higher possibility of failure ? Persons on the inside of various RRs might know ?
What kind of locomotives and what kind of breakdkowns?
Amazing how the picture with the article shows a thoroughly frosted cab car - not a locomotive as we are now in May without snow and ice.
To make it worse it is a CTA car not METRA. “L” riders should get a laugh !
Metra riders are not laughing.
They need to get over it, sometime things happen.
Only 3% of all Metra trains arrived late in the month of April.
Nobody in Chicago rides the El, we ride the “L”.
Maybe they should take care of what they have.
If it is made by man - at some point in time it will break - no matter how well maintained.
I know car companies always put the parts on the new cars before sending parts to the dealerships/repairs hops. This is especially true when there was a defect, and many parts have to be replaced at the same time. I assume locomotive manufactures are te same way.