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When a foreign locomotive 92/184 day inspection is due does it get sent home or are is it inspected on the railroad it’s on then a bill is sent to the owner railroad?

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The-late-EMD Wrote:
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> When a foreign locomotive 92/184 day inspection is
> due does it get sent home or are is it inspected
> on the railroad it’s on then a bill is sent to
> the owner railroad?

Every example of this situation I've ever heard of has involved sending the foreign locomotive home dead-in-tow -- as if it were a boxcar -- for inspection.

Yep, give it back to the owner out of gas, brakes shot, oil dripping out the sides, and cab destroyed... seen that more than a few times on the transfer track, UP and BNSF.

Mr. MRL

99 times out 100 the unit is sent back to its home road for inspection. But on the rare occasion that it does get the RM done...1. It will only be an 92 day inspection as these can be done in a shift or less...2. Basically the railroads at the end of the year will tell the other railroads we did xx number of RM's on your locomotives, how many did you do on ours? Whatever the difference is will be just be a paid back to the railroad that did more RM's during that year.

MrMRL Wrote:
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> Yep, give it back to the owner out of gas, brakes
> shot, oil dripping out the sides, and cab
> destroyed... seen that more than a few times on
> the transfer track, UP and BNSF.
>
> Mr. MRL

Just like a rental home!