Brad, Well, this is your pipe dream, so ultimately you can do whatever you want! Now, if you are asking my opinion...that and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Let me start by saying that I don't know what I'm talking about. However, I would have to wonder what the terms of any locomotive lease would be. As for the C425s, they must have been on a 12 year lease, because the EL sent them out west in March 1976 right before Conrail. In fact they even totally repainted one of them only a matter of days before the end. Talk about company pride... Does that mean the other Alcos were on a 12 year deal? If so, then the C424s were already "owned" by the EL by 1976. I guess you would have put yourself in the position of the person in charge of motive power. When the lease ends, how much is it going to cost to retain the units vs. how much will it cost to purchase/lease new units? Do you go with something new and expensive, or relatively cheap but heavily used? Something new that your shop might not know how to fix or something that you've been maintaining for the last 15 years or so? Is the lessor someone you can deal with? I recall that Conrail sent back the EL units that were financed through Dereco (N&W) when their lease was up in the early 80s. As for your last question, you would have to ask yourself what the new units will be used for. It seems to me that the EL preferred 6-axle units for their road freights. If you needed a 6-axle unit in the mid to late 70s, the SD40-2 was the best thing out there. - -pat - -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Bradley Butcher" <llyengalyn_@_hotmail.com> > > Ok I think most people have heard at least some about my freelanced prototype EL > ideas. Now my question is. > > Since I plan on modeling EL in the late 70's <remember NO Conrail> typical > Locomotive lease periods seem to be 15 years by and large. So theoritically in > 78 the lease would be coming up on the C424's. Do my learned list brothers > believe that EL would have renewed they're lease? > > I guess it the question could be extended to the C425's. U25B's and GP35's by > 1980 for perspective. > > > And if they did retire them what would replace them? BB units or CC? I could see > GP40-2's, C36-7's. For some reason I just can't see EL every buying SD40-2s even > if they had the money. > > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List > http://EL-List.railfan.net/ > To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2732 ***********************************
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