Miles, those engines are parked just a few miles west of where I live. They have been there a couple years. Good friend of mine is retired from the railroad and was an engineer out of Tucson. According to him, ctsmith nailed it. Decline in the coal industry and lackluster economy in general.
When you see CCCC this weekend ask him about them. He comes through here quite often.
The tracks used to run north of the interstate, cross over the interstate to the south side at Marsh Station Road, make a loop and cross back over the interstate at Empirita Road. The underpass at Marsh Station was low clearance and narrow. Couple years ago they moved the Marsh Station Exit about a mile east the tracks stayed north of the interstate. UP uses that old loop to store locomotives. Like ctsmith said, about 300 of them at $2mil a piece.
