Laharpe Shops

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Re: Laharpe Shops

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Are they planning to acquire or lease other locomotives?

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I can confirm they started scrapping the old WMI #100, a friend of mine bought the headlight off of it.

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Re: Laharpe Shops

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jrgerber wrote:
Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:49 pm
Are they planning to acquire or lease other locomotives?
They are currently leasing two or three ugly CEFX GP20Ds.

SD80MAC wrote:
Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:52 pm
I can confirm they started scrapping the old WMI #100, a friend of mine bought the headlight off of it.

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Thanks for confirming.

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Re: Laharpe Shops

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Thanks for the info on leasing the locomotives.

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