Norfolk Southern locomotive auction

I wonder this is going to help NS’s bottom line

Getting paid for fully depreciated equipment can’t hurt.

I have posted the list of buyers and dispositions for the auctioned NS units on my website here:

http://www.nsdash9.com/NSauction082016.html

Chris Toth
NSDash9.com

Thanks Chris

This was nice to see …

5033 SOU (CNO&TP) 5033 03-1972 7362-24 Tennessee Valley Railroad - TVRM; Chattanooga, TN

They got a second one as well, didn’t they? Not sure what the differences mean, but “Tennessee Valley Railroad - Calhoun” is the notation for the #5044 as well.

I would suspect that the Calhoun, TN notation means the 5044 is going to be interchanged to CSX at Calhoun and go to TVRM’s Hiawassee River Railroad that runs to Copperhill. The 5033 would go to Chattanooga to be used in freight switching on the Tynar Terminal Railroad. This would save TVRM the cost of two leased locomotives. That would be my guess for the different locations and what is going to happen with them. I could easily be wrong.

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has announced that they’ve actually taken deliverly of this locomotive after all. They traded the 5033 to Progress Rail to get her.

So the class engine of the largest class of power on the Southern Railway system will now be preserved.