The current AAR rules allow 60(!) to 65(!!) years of service for new cars. As
long as those older ATSF & SLSF cars meet the BNSF's standards, they can run on
home rails till the cows come home.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "soocarman79" <soocarman79@...> wrote:
>
> If memory serves me correctly and the rules haven't changed,40 years is the
> life of a railcar. After that it can't be interchanged between railroads.
> They will be restricted to just the BNSF. Again that's what the rules were
> when I was railroading.
> Mitch
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Cyril T. Svobodny" <ctsvobodny@> wrote:
> >
> > The BN merger will be 40 years old next March. We still find in service
> > equipment in the lettering and colors of the premergered railroads. I find
> > this fact very amazing. None of these cars etc. needed to be shopped where
> > they could be relettered, or renumbered during that time. And there have
> > been two mergers since the BN in 3/70 (Frisco & Santa Fe). Do we have
> > another 40 years of SLSF & AT&SF to look forward to. There are lots of
> > middle aged railfans who were born after the BN was created. I for one am
> > glad I was around before that infamous date and can remember Q silver, GN
> > orange & green etc.
> >
>
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