June 1, 2016
Former UP 9129 is now relegated to moving loads of wheat. The former mainline speedster is relegated to 10 to 25mph moving hoppers of grain on the shortline Eastern Washington Gateway. There wasn't much of a market for old GE's after the shortline was done with it. It's motor was salvaged for use in another locomotive and the rest of it was scrapped.
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There's EMD products from the 50's still being used, but zero GE products. Just about anything previous to the 2000's is long gone.
Can't beat GM's finest for reliability!
I know of one U23B that was bought used, but they could never spend enough money on it to make it run reliably.
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