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Norfolk Southern begins scrapping Dash 8s
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Can anyone give insight into why dash-8s in general are being scrapped rather than rebuilt? They aren’t that old.
Somebody save them!
NS must be starving for revenue, especially in view of the managements performance in regards to the hostile take over by CP. I wonder how the stockholders are going to react to this. Scrapping rather than selling seems a waste of revenue to me. But I’m not management, so what do I know?
Very few railroad have any interest in wornout GE locos. Much more expensive to rebuild than EMD
Not exactly pleasing to the eye either.
Interesting that they are being scrapped by Progress Rail, owner of the EMD brand and subsidiary of Caterpillar. If in fact EMDs are less expensive to rebuild than GE, I would expect EMD to continue to design their products to be remanufactured as both Progress Rail and Caterpillar are significant remanufacturers.