Metrolink Tier 4 Locomotive Schedule Update (9-23-16 Metrolink Board Agenda)

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The delivery schedule of Tier 4 locomotives has bee

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Yikes!

Entropy, is this material problem related to the diesel prime mover itself?

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Does that mean SCAX No. 905 will be heading back to EMD for the corrections?

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Since Progress/EMD is a subsidiary of Caterpillar, the engine is in-house and the reference to “suppliers” suggest that the problem is something from outside Caterpillar/Progress.

Of course, in this case the carbody is contracted out, so it could be almost anything except the engine…

M636C

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I wonder if this has anything to do with the sale of the Vossloh plant in Valencia, Spain to Stadler. IRRC the F-125 bodies and a number of the other components were being built there, not in Muncie. Vossloh was building a new plant in Kiel, Germany, but I don’t know it’s status.