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NRE to overhaul Connecticut DOT commuter rail locomotives

March 20, 2017

 

A Connecticut Department of Transportation GP40 leads a westbound Shore Line East train at Clinton, Conn.

Scott Hartley

 

 

MT. VERNON, Ill. — National Railway Equipment will overhaul six Connecticut Department of Transportation GP40-2H locomotives, according to an NRE press release.

The release states that NRE will produce over 90 percent of the locomotive content in house.   The company guarantees delivery of the locomotives within 450 days of receipt from CDOT.

The six commuter units were manufactured for CDOT in 1996 in Montreal, Quebec, by AMF Technotransport.  AMF used six former CSX GP38s and GP40s built between 1967 and 1971  .  .  .

 

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