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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Old Equipment
From: "larrgra" <larry.graus@opc.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:48:26 -0000
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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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