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Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: Additional details emerge on FEC’s ES44C4 order
The SD70M-2s will now be used on their other rail lines, from the way that is stated.
The SD70M-2s will most likely be sent to a RailAmerica property, since Fortress does have an investment in RailAmerica.
Please build them in Erie, PA. Spite is not right. I know it’s all about the money, but let’s remember the greater community.
I hope they enjoy the locked axles and fire out of the stacks.
Very cool…Will prove as popular as KCS’s retro Southern Belles!
If now, BNSF could be convinced the retro look has it all over the current colors-Warbonnets!
@ZACH PUMPHERY - I think a lot of posters are jumping the gun. FEC is owned by Fortress Investment Group. FIG just bought MM&A’s mainline. Therefore, ergo, jump to conclusion, FIG’s management will swoop in, take the old locomotives, and give them to NewMM&A.
I guess it’s… possible? But I think the people thinking this are assuming a level of micromanagement from FIG that would be unusual for that kind of organization. At least, I hope it’s not true.
Do not forget that Fortress Holdings has recently bid and was awarded the Montreal,Main & Atlantic RR and in 2007 the Company had acquired all of RAIL AMERICA’S lines. see link for list of then RA Holdings:
@ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-5l54f1GU
No idea what the current holding are still in the Fortress Portfolio?
RailAmerica was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in 2012.
The unions, in Erie, cut their own throats, no?
Mel & Mo; Larry & Curly, too: Erie is in Pennsylvania. Duh!???
Eric: "Fire out the stacks? Sounds like the ‘good-old’ Alco days!
Their other rail lines? It says they will depart the roster. What “other” FEC lines?
Too bad GE has moved their manufacturing to Taxass for cheaper labor all the while Rick Perry is thumbing his nose at New York as well the workers. While he brags about stealing jobs from other states while the poverty level in Texas is around 40% and that working people.
Odds are FEC will either send the SD70M-2s to the new Maine operation or sell them off altogether.
It would be nice to see SD70s on the MMA!
This is a big culture change for FEC. I remember its chief one time say all one brand, EMD was good for mechanics to work on and be familiar with. What changed, poor performance, cost to operate per mile, politics? They have the flattest track of any road?
Oh my God, we’ve lost them. Bye bye every reason I loved the FEC.
FEC doesn’t own the SD70s, it leases them. When the lease expires, they will leave the roster, just like the press release states. (This also holds true for the 140-142, leased from CITX.) Since FEC nor its holding company own the units, it’s highly unlikely they’ll have anything to say (or even care) about where they go from here; that would fall to the owner of the locomotives.