In March 2013, four of the five locomotives stored at the Hutt Workshops were noted as being held on the workshops scrap road, after useful parts (many of them common to the later Toshiba-built DSJ class shunting locomotives) were stripped from them [REF].
Scrapping of the four remaining locomotives started on 1 May 2013, with the unrefurbished pair of EO 39 and 68 the first to be scrapped on 8 May and 3 May.