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Posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Jan 15 10:23:46 2019, in response to BART getting ready to decommission legacy cars, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Jan 15 01:09:34 2019. Scrapping may be off the table. Asbestos, you know. Asbestos abatement is expensive in this country, and fed law prevents exporting asbestos in scrap material.The carbon steel of the NYCT had more resale value (I would think) than alumnum cars wood. They could be exported to say Venezuela for use on their system. Re-gauging the wheel-sets is snot a big deal, though clearances may be. Sell them for 10,000 Venezuelan Bolivars each, and that would return about 70c USD per car to the fed. : ) If after that Venezuela finds they cannot use the cars after all, they can scrap them, and nobody would have sold them as scrap outside of the country. ROAR |
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