E60C-2
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NdeM) ordered 39 E60C-2 locomotives built between September 1982 and December 1983. They were numbered EA001-EA039. These E60C-2's have double cabs and double pantographs.
These locomotives were intended for use on a new double-track electric line between Mexico City and Irapuato, but economic conditions delayed the project and prevented its completion as planned. On February 24, 1994, 28 of the locomotives finally went into operation by NdeM on a shortened version of the project, but six of these soon wrecked. Eleven others remained in storage. When the electric line was privatized in 1997, the 22 operating E60C-2's passed to Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM), and the unused 11 remained in storage in government ownership. Most of the catenary was soon removed for increased vertical clearance.
All of the E60C-2's have been offered for sale since, and 22 of them were sold back to GE for more GE AC4400CWs. Three E60C-2's were sold to Texas Utilities (TXU) to serve the company's Martin Lake Line in 1999. BM&LP acquired several E60C-2s to replace their own aging E60C's. The Deseret-Western Railway acquired 7 E60C-2's to ship coal over the 35-mile stretch from the Deserado Coal Mine located near Rangely, Colorado to Deseret's Bonanza Power Plant located near Bonanza, Utah. Seven were acquired in 2006 by the Montréal Agence Métropolitaine de Transport, in Québec.
Five units, EA011, EA016, EA014, EA025, and EA019, part of the Montréal Agence Métropolitaine de Transport group, were seen in transit on CSX on April 13, 2008, in Syracuse NY. The train hauling the units operates from Montreal to Selkirk (near Albany) NY. The units were delivered to the Susquehanna Locomotive and Car Shops located in the former NYS&W shops in Utica, NY. They were bought by a Mexican oil company for the electrical components. What was not taken by the oil company was parted out by SL&C and the balance of the units scrapped. Some of these locomotives had never been used and still had the desiccant bags stuffed in the control cabinets.
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