Ralph's locomotive repair.

[Murphy_Siding]

I wish I had written the name down, but alas, I did not. A couple weeks back I saw a big truck in Brookings S.D. The old DM&E runs through Brookings. The truck had the name of some locomotive repair company. The signage suggested that it was a mobile repair truck that could go to where your broken locomotive was sitting.

This appeared to be a privately owned company that perhaps contracted out to railroads. I thought that each railroad had its own repairmen. Is it common to sub that work out?

[BaltACD]

I wish I had written the name down, but alas, I did not. A couple weeks back I saw a big truck in Brookings S.D. The old DM&E runs through Brookings. The truck had the name of some locomotive repair company. The signage suggested that it was a mobile repair truck that could go to where your broken locomotive was sitting.

This appeared to be a privately owned company that perhaps contracted out to railroads. I thought that each railroad had its own repairmen. Is it common to sub that work out?

Considering your area of the country, it may have been

http://www.jessupdiesel.com/services.html

Short Line operators rarely have the resources to do more than add fuel and sand to their locomotives.

[ACY_Tom]

I wish I had written the name down, but alas, I did not. A couple weeks back I saw a big truck in Brookings S.D. The old DM&E runs through Brookings. The truck had the name of some locomotive repair company. The signage suggested that it was a mobile repair truck that could go to where your broken locomotive was sitting.

This appeared to be a privately owned company that perhaps contracted out to railroads. I thought that each railroad had its own repairmen. Is it common to sub that work out?

Is that a subsidiary of Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery in Lake Wobegone?

Tom

[mudchicken]

Independent Locomotive Services (ILSX) or Larry’s Truck Electric (LTEX) ?.. (both come with very large lease fleets) … very common to see them out here along with OmniTrax’s locomotive bubbas (can’t shoot straight gang)