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by Locokutter
Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:54 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Scraping locomotives
Replies: 30
Views: 10790

Locomotive news

Just wanted to put this out there, Rtex locomotive services has been forced to close there doors in Monroe ga the director of operations (owners son ) (yeah I know ) for the last two years was unable to take the buisness from a succesful one to a thriving one it went from a successful one to a close...
by Locokutter
Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:51 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Scraping locomotives
Replies: 30
Views: 10790

Re: Scraping locomotives

Here's a shorter answer if you sell the loco as a whole and you sell it as scrap you're looking at the most 100,000 if its entact , that's if you're selling to a scrapper but if you sell it to a leaser or reseller you could get closer to 200,000 if the unit runs, I just come from a auction in St. Lo...
by Locokutter
Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:23 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Scraping locomotives
Replies: 30
Views: 10790

Re: Scraping locomotives

It depends, do you want to get rid of the whole thing, do you want to take the prime mover, generator , equipment rack, trucks , Combos, cooling hatch radiators, fans. Etc.... (Any resellable components)? And the price you get depends on what kind of procedure the scrappers uses to do the job, if us...
by Locokutter
Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:44 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Scraping locomotives
Replies: 30
Views: 10790

Re: Scraping locomotives

I have cut over 1000 locos in my short career so if anybody has questions on loco scrap fire away
by Locokutter
Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:42 pm
Forum: Historical Q & A
Topic: Scraping locomotives
Replies: 30
Views: 10790

Your weights and values are wrong

I just wanted to say that your weights and prices are so far off that it makes you look like you have no idea what your talking bout