Citirail Local
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Citirail Local
Sat Jul 8 there was an autorack train poised to proceed west at Brooklyn Ave on the Huntington District headed by a single Citirail locomotive. Making me suspect this must be a local. Citirail are leased units, is NS short on power to the point they've leased units for local service?
- rrnut282
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Re: Citirail Local
It's been used on mainline trains, too. I saw it a couple of weeks ago on a Northbound rack train.
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- Bob Durnell
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Re: Citirail Local
NS is not leasing any extra power. Most likely this unit is paying back horsepower hours to NS for whichever RR, (likely BNSF) has leased it.
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Makes perfect sense, thankyou.Bob Durnell wrote: Most likely this unit is paying back horsepower hours to NS for whichever RR, (likely BNSF) has leased it.
it does seem a little odd to me that an "hours payback" unit found it's way into local service.
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Well, the best way to get horsepower payback is to USE the unit. If it was sitting at the pit waiting for work, why not use it? 

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