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John Bush

August 01, 2015 11:01AM

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Under the new FRA regulations every day a locomotive is fired up counts as a service day. After 1472 service days the locomotive has to be torn down and inspected. This is an expensive job. Therefore we shut the locomotives down when possible to extend the time between these expensive inspections.

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