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SLRG 8577 at Cresson Texas on 04/09/2021.  Sad sight to see this locomotive sidelined along with the sand business at Vista Sand shut down due to COVID-19.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/21 13:07 by KB5WK.

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          Didn't shut down because of Covid. Shut down because the bottom dropped out of oil prices.

Neat weathering effect; I assume they couple on at the nose and get the spillover from loading of cars?
Fred

dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
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>           Didn't shut down because of Covid.
> Shut down because the bottom dropped out of oil
> prices.

Oil prices dropping were a direct result of COVID-19.
So I stand by my original statement. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/21 15:08 by KB5WK.

dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
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>           Didn't shut down because of Covid.
> Shut down because the bottom dropped out of oil
> prices.

Just why do you think that happened? The fact that there was a MASSIVE reduction in motor fuel usage wasn't a factor? And,,,,,,,,,,why did THAT occur?

Actually 8577 got into a crossing accident on the SLRG. It t-boned a semi truck full of scrap cardboard at the crossing in Ft. Garland east of Alamosa.  The shop crew canniblized the handrails off another dead GE and pounded out and bondo-ed over the dents in the nose, eventually painting the nose primer gray.  Before the maroon could be shot, the stripe stickers got slapped on and away she went.  8577 ran for a few weeks with a beat out and bondo-ed front end.  After a couple of rain storms it started to rust.  It looked pretty nasty.

We started calling it "Scabby Nose"