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LMS or Conrail in Boston

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Michael T. Ruane Jr

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Jul 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/21/98
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Hey All-

I'm doing work in Boston, staying in Brighton, and saw what I thought
was a Conrail stack train, with 3 locomotives, but the first was
labelled LMS. Who are they?

TIA-

Mike


Mark Sorce

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Jul 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/22/98
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LMS is a leasing company owned by Conrail. I can't remember what the
acronym stands for off hand. They own 40 engines, #700-739, all GE
C40-8W's. Does this information fit what you saw?

Greg Goldthorpe

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Jul 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/23/98
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In article <35B67C02...@mediaone.net>, Mark Sorce
<mso...@mediaone.net> wrote:

Mark.........

You are partly right LMS is a leasing company owned by Conrail, but it is
also owned partly by GE Capital. LMS, stands for "Lease Management
Systems". 24 of the 40 units are on CN property right now LMSX C40-8W
715-729, 731-739.

Just some info..

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Greg Goldthorpe gg...@idigital.net
-Model Railroaders have a One Track mind-
CN Great Lakes Division MP 21.2 York Sub.

K-man

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Jul 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/24/98
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Mark Sorce wrote in message <35B67C02...@mediaone.net>...

>LMS is a leasing company owned by Conrail. I can't remember what the
>acronym stands for off hand. They own 40 engines, #700-739, all GE
>C40-8W's. Does this information fit what you saw?

LMS stands for "Locomotive Management Systems"


Kman

Tad Cat

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Jul 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/29/98
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:48:26 GMT, Mark Sorce <mso...@mediaone.net>
wrote:
LMS stands for Locomotive Leasing Service.......Conrail started
building locomotives with parts supplied buy GE, GE could not build
locomotives fast enough to meet demand.


>LMS is a leasing company owned by Conrail. I can't remember what the
>acronym stands for off hand. They own 40 engines, #700-739, all GE
>C40-8W's. Does this information fit what you saw?
>

it_ is _me

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Jul 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM7/30/98
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Tad Cat <tad...@ovis.net> wrote in article
<35be8aee...@news.ovis.net>...

> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 23:48:26 GMT, Mark Sorce <mso...@mediaone.net>
> wrote:
> LMS stands for Locomotive Leasing Service.......Conrail started
> building locomotives with parts supplied buy GE, GE could not build
> locomotives fast enough to meet demand.

In the mid 1980's Selkirk yard (Albany NY) had hundreds of locomotives
out of service because there was not need for them. It was amazing how
many were sitting their. How the world changed.

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