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Merritt Mullen wrote:

> Pierre A Plauzoles at plauzolesp@bigvalley.net wrote on 10/5/00 9:01 PM:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > The subject of electrification of Metrolink has come up ocasionally and
> > San Francisco's Peninsula line will probably be electrified within a few
> > years.  When this is done, new locomotives will have to be bought.  Has
> > the decision been made as to what model to buy for San Francisco?
>
> I think you are a bit premature.  By the time the Peninsula is electrified
> (5-10 years?), the choice of electric locomotive might look entirely
> different than it does today.  Perhaps the service will switch to EMUs and
> not require locomotives.  Of course, they probably would want to use the
> current cars and that would require locomotives.
>
> You suggested E60s.  I thought E60s were considered to be troublemakers on
> the NEC.  It seems the preferred loco is the AEM-7, used by both Amtrak and
> MARC, and both are happy with it.

These are E60c-2s.  I haven't heard how happy (or unhappy) Deseret Western
[Rangely, in northwestern Colorado to some isolated one-bar (?) town in
northeastern Utah] is with theirs, but then they and BMLP -- and TXU (Martin
Lake, Texas), the gas -and-electricity utility that serves a good sized chunk
of Texas and is headquartered in Dallas -- have picked up some of them.  Out of
the original 39 ordered, 15 have been sold, and 20 were left as of last
August.  I wonder what is left now out of those 20 and where they are.
Incidentally, depending on the color scheme and how they maintain the locos,
those Martin Lake units ought to be good targets for photographers on the lake:
the electrics probably go over the bridge (which is some 1500 feet long, if I
recall the map scale properly) southeast of the power plant.  Anyone know for
sure?