12-11-2011, 06:58 AM
Gary,
I'm a very long way from being knowledgeable on US procedures. However if your looking reasons to use more stock, you could do what I'm doing/planning at the moment. I'm building a layout based in industrial Chicago around the CIRY (central illinois railroad) who only had a few SW9s, however they went out of business at the start of this year, but the track rights were BNSFs and BNSF has now begun to switch the area, using a great mix of spare locos, from a tatty GP50 to a sparkling exGP30 GP39-2R in Heritage III paint and a EMDX GP38-2.
So you could say your shortline railroad has gone out of business and use your UP locos to switch the tracks.
Dave
I'm a very long way from being knowledgeable on US procedures. However if your looking reasons to use more stock, you could do what I'm doing/planning at the moment. I'm building a layout based in industrial Chicago around the CIRY (central illinois railroad) who only had a few SW9s, however they went out of business at the start of this year, but the track rights were BNSFs and BNSF has now begun to switch the area, using a great mix of spare locos, from a tatty GP50 to a sparkling exGP30 GP39-2R in Heritage III paint and a EMDX GP38-2.
So you could say your shortline railroad has gone out of business and use your UP locos to switch the tracks.
Dave
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