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NS ‘Dash 8.5s’ spotted in mainline service
No doubt Mr. Harrison would scrap all these locomotives in the rebuild program as being not cost efficient.
It wouldn’t surprise me if NS doesn’t purchase a single new locomotive for the rest of the decade by the way their rebuild program is going.
Recently, a number of Dash-8’s have been sent to scrap @ Cresson, PA. I wonder if the 8.5 program won’t be curtailed. BTW, NS ordered 47 ET-44’s…and three ES-44’s.
Widecab Dash 8s are a 90s product. The spartan (standard) cab C40-8 was built in the 80s.