Four PH37ACmi diesel-electric locomotives built for Freightliner, a railroad company in the United Kingdom, are reportedly scheduled to be shipped out of the port. These locomotives, number 70008-70011, are numbers seven through 10 of a 30 locomotive order. The first locomotives were shipped out of an east coast port last year.
When this occurs this will be the first order of locomotives shipped from Erie since 2006.
CSX has now moved all of the biodiesel cars off of the Mountfort Terminal after the failed loading of the CLIPPER LOYALTY earlier this week.
In other railroad-related harbor news, the new siding into Donjon Shipbuilding and Repair appears to be nearly complete, but there is no word as of yet when the company might receive its first rail shipment.
The tug KEN BOOTHE SR. is tentatively scheduled to be moved out of the drydock at Donjon on December 17. I will follow this story as it develops.
CSX Local Y120-02 waits to pick up the locomotives from GE this afternoon.
Another view.
Freightliner locomotive 70008 waits for the local to pick it up at 1500 this afternoon.
70009 and 70010. These locomotives are on rail cars because they are of a different gauge than North American rails and thus cannot be shipped directly on the rails.
The entire locomotive shipment. These units look roughly the same on both ends, unlike their North American counterparts.
Freightliner locomotive 70011.
1 comment:
70008 - 12 shipped but one being returned damaged on arrival having fallen back into the hold of the Beluga Endurance at Newport, Wales.
Post a Comment