AMTK Locomotive 66 Hit semi and damaged
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CSXfoamer1997
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Alright, so now it's been almost half a month since the accident. So the question is, where is #66 now? Is it in Chicago, Beech Grove, etc?
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Ohh, boy. I hope it'll return to service.
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Even if it does it may be many years before it gets around to it.
TylerP42
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Just saw 66 in the Chicago Yard
TylerP42
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It was pretty tucked away... I barely saw it when passing it while talking to the crew (who all know me) on the Lake Shore passing the shops.Great news, how did it avoid the wall of foamers that I assumed would surround it more securely than the secret service surround the president? Of course I'm jesting
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Do you know of any reasons why it was *hidden*?It was pretty tucked away... I barely saw it when passing it while talking to the crew (who all know me) on the Lake Shore passing the shops.Great news, how did it avoid the wall of foamers that I assumed would surround it more securely than the secret service surround the president? Of course I'm jesting
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This kinda reminds me, why was #66 rebuilt for regional service rather than kept just the way it was before?
TylerP42
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No idea why it was tucked away. Probably because they just have more important things to do than get it ready for scrap
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Eventually, most of the fleet will receive the upgrades.
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Does this mean it's going to scrap or they're in the process of getting it repaired?
MikefromCrete
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Tyler seems really convinced that it's going to be scrapped. Truth is, we don't know.
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I don't think it is typical to scrap a unit. It rarely occurs.
Acela150
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We can't. He has the name Foamer in his user id for a reason.
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Well, it is Tyler that seems to be convinced that it will be scrapped, and apparently it has something to do with the Heritage paint scheme, though of late he vehemently denies that.
Well, its likely it will be scrapped. The question is if it will be repaired first and then how many years of service after that before it does.
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neroden
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I see what you did there.
Of course, perhaps it will live on forever, eventually in museum service.
Ryan
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Touché, sir. You win.
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I suppose we might as well take this as far as it can possibly go. Forever is a really long time and any locomotive would rust and decay long before that. The glass headlight lenses would probably remain intact the longest if they were left undisturbed but eventually there would be nothing left that was large enough to see with the naked eye. Over time continents would move and oceans would form and shrink as any remaining inert molecules of the locomotive floated and drifted about. Followed by the evaporation of all surface water and eventual envelopment by the sun. It's hard for me to imagine even the tiniest least significant spec of a locomotive somehow surviving an event of such magnitude. I suppose if we had chipped away a piece of the locomotive and sent it out into space beforehand it would be able to experience the finite expansion and cooling of the universe followed by perpetual entropy. I'm not sure what if anything could possibly happen after that, but this is about as close to "forever" as my human brain can hope to comprehend.
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TylerP42
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I just use information given to me by engineers and other amtrak friends.He was all over Facebook demanding it be scrapped.. Not like there is a power shortage or anything...Well, it is Tyler that seems to be convinced that it will be scrapped, and apparently it has something to do with the Heritage paint scheme, though of late he vehemently denies that.
