Qhat a waste of money. These units don't even look as if they were used not even once. That is one of the problems of our military (government) spending. They buy things then let them turn to rust or they strip off the usable parts and throw the rest away.
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I wonder what the reasoning behind this is. Seems such a waste to dispose of 6 or 7 year old locomotives.
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| Posted by on February 14, 2013 | |
What a waste. Any idea the reason they are being abandoned?
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| Posted by BMK on February 14, 2013 | |
Another U. S. Government failure, no wonder our Govt. is broke!
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It is just possible that R.J. Corman , located in Nicholasville, Ky. might want the frames of these units. He has had some RP-20 BD locomotives built at the NS Juniata shops, several of which started as Green Goats were striped to the frame to become RP 20 BD gen set locomotives. Juniata is currently building a group of RP-20 BDs to fill an order.
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| Posted by joem on February 15, 2013 | |
And in the meantime many SW’s, early GP’s, and even some early GE products continue to earn their keep. What’s more green, to keep rebuilding and using 40-60 year old locomotives, or to build high tech hybrids and scrap them after 6 years?
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They would over heat in the hot climates and batteries would die in cold climates. All around the "Great Goat" was a bad design which is why they switched to the GenSet design.
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