04-16-2011, 07:18 PM
Looking back over your first post, I think that we need to adjust your story about the repainting of the units.
How about we say your CMO knows someone in the Mech. Dept at CSX and they were talking and struck a deal which got your shortline two of the Demonstrators at a good price and saved the CSX guy having to repaint them. You will have to check timelines here.
Anyway the units were delivered Dead In Tow and simply parked on one of your shop tracks awaiting your CMO's personal inspection. The reason your CMO was delayed was due to a family bereavement and having to act as executor of the estate and will, organise the funeral etc.
Now working on the Swiss Cheese Slices theory of how disasters happen, it just so happened that your shop ran out of anti freeze and only discovered the problem after close of business on a holiday weekend.
We now have plenty of slices for our Swiss Cheese theory and this is how the two units ended up with frozen and broken cooling systems thus writing off the engines.
Mark
How about we say your CMO knows someone in the Mech. Dept at CSX and they were talking and struck a deal which got your shortline two of the Demonstrators at a good price and saved the CSX guy having to repaint them. You will have to check timelines here.
Anyway the units were delivered Dead In Tow and simply parked on one of your shop tracks awaiting your CMO's personal inspection. The reason your CMO was delayed was due to a family bereavement and having to act as executor of the estate and will, organise the funeral etc.
Now working on the Swiss Cheese Slices theory of how disasters happen, it just so happened that your shop ran out of anti freeze and only discovered the problem after close of business on a holiday weekend.
We now have plenty of slices for our Swiss Cheese theory and this is how the two units ended up with frozen and broken cooling systems thus writing off the engines.
Mark
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