No but you would have thought they would still be scrapped in bits and drabs though
Is there any in preservation
There is a group cl60 who will aim to preserve one where possible.
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My viewpoint on what happened was that EWS needed less when the 66's became available .... however a core of about 20 were really useful for particularly heavy trains on stiff gradients. So when a locomotive developed a major fault or needed overhaul another was simply used instead .. with a fair bit of robbing parts of peter to pay paul to keep the required group going.
however at some point in the late 2000's it was probably realised that strategy was going to result in none being available at all. And I also imagine at this time the replacement parts for the electronics (designed circa 1990) were probably becoming difficult to source. (Think of trying to buy a intel 386 processor today ... you'd probably have to goto ebay).
So an exercise was undergone to replace the electronics ....[ I think brush did this] (with a design which was more up to date and for which parts would be available). Some mechanical parts were also slated for renewal. These were tried out initially in a couple of locomotives.
The engines seem fundamentally quite reliable and supported.
So in the past couple of years the viability of maintaining the class for the next 10/15 years seems a lot brighter to how it would have been looking at 2005.
There's no point in putting new wine in old wineskins, so the class60 overhaul's (called by some the supertug) meant electronics, (rebuilt?) engine and various other mechanicals were done at the same time. Obviously that is an expensive overhaul; and DBS have so far done about the 20 or so they seem to need ( I think they only have 5 or less non overhauled ones running) as opposed to 15 or so overhauled ones ( I think they have two overhauled ones out of use one for defects and one for a collision).
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I think DBS seem to have generally sold Colas ones in reasonably good condition (when stopped). However Colas are getting giving them the overhaul treatment before entering service.
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Most other candidates on the line are probably suitable candidates for the overhaul treatment as I suspect parts are now readily obtainable for the next few years. However the overhaul will not be cheap ... however the ongoing costs may well know be known from the hours clocked up by the overhauled locomotives.
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If the existing engines did not seem to be supported then replacing the engines with multiple gensets might have been attractive .... evidently not necessary.
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This post in essentially all my opinion reading this thread and from the tugtracker and cl60 websites.
