Price of a real locomotive?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi you all,

Does someone know the price of a brand new real (prototype):

A- 4 axle locomotive

B- 6 axle locomotive

C- A standard 50 feet boxcar

Have a good one…

Michel deep in the wonderfull north

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I realy don’t know but I found the price estament for the sd70mac 2mil each.

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When i was living in alaska they give tours of their maint. facility once a year. They had just bought a few new SD70MACs for the state railroad. I beleive they quoated a price of 2.5 million each.

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Divide by 87 makes Athearn look pretty good. man, it makes brass look pretty good [:D][:D][:D]

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The people on the trains fourm would probably know

~METRO

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Thanks guys.

METRO: good idea

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Even though its really not my buissness, but, why? If you wanted something to do, i would go to scranton PA and see if you could pick up a “project” from SteamTown N.P. they’ve got a couple steamers sittin in the yard.

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Just a couple of things,
Does anyone make 4 axle locomotives anymore? I was under the impression that they didn’t. (Except for GE’s Genisis units)
MR had a joke review in the April 2004 issue, and it was of the WSOR MR boxcar. I think the price was something like $20 000.
Trainboy
P.S. Love your username, SD40-2W. CNR4EVER! (even though I’m a CP fan, I love all the EMD locos)

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A recon SW1500 is about $130,000

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Like most other things, if I have to ask the price, I probably can’t afford it.

Wayne

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The green goat light switcher is the only freight one I can think of. Also, Chicago’s Metra recently bought some sort of deformed knockoff of the F59PHi
called the MP36. both are made by MotivePower industries.