12-31-2010, 08:38 PM
One reason that I'm modeling the LAJ in the 1990's is that they pretty much parked the Cf7's in the late 1990's except for emergency use. I'm not sure if the LAJ got the LPG units because the Santa Fe didn't like them or if it was because the LAJ had the potential to make more smog than the Santa Fe would at Hobart. I suspect it was the former, because I think the switchers at Hobart do a lot more running than the CF7's at the LAJ. It could have also been that the CF7's were getting "long in the tooth" and may have become a maintenance headache. I remember that they made a big deal about the Santa Fe and the UP getting the LPG units to work Hobart Yard and Washington St. Yard, but I saw the Santa Fe units operating exclusively on the LAJ very soon after the S.F. got them.