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Date: 12/17/18 15:01
Metrolink selling Five Locomotives to North Carolina DOT
Author: PacificElectric1961

At the December 14th Metrolink Board Meeting, the Board approve the sale of five F59PH locomotives to NCDOT for $70,000 each. The Board report notes that the NCDOT will use the locomotives for "various alternative fuel demonstration purposes."
 

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Date: 12/17/18 15:14
Re: Metrolink selling Five Locomotives to North Carolina DOT
Author: Alco251

The locomotives are sold without prime mover, a requirement of the clean-air financing that helped pay for the replacement F125 locomotives.

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Date: 12/17/18 16:44
Re: Metrolink selling Five Locomotives to North Carolina DOT
Author: pdt

Alco251 Wrote:
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> The locomotives are sold without prime mover, a
> requirement of the clean-air financing that helped
> pay for the replacement F125 locomotives.

Stupid political grandstanding, IMHO

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Date: 12/17/18 17:06
Re: Metrolink selling Five Locomotives to North Carolina DOT
Author: PHall

Alco251 Wrote:
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> The locomotives are sold without prime mover, a
> requirement of the clean-air financing that helped
> pay for the replacement F125 locomotives.

Just means you get to put a crate motor in it!

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