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| Author: | superheater [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Last of Their Kind, 4 Axles from GE and EMD |
What was the last GE 4 axle? Likewise EMD? |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Last of Their Kind, 4 Axles from GE and EMD |
ASSUMING you are being ethnocentric and mean only production for North America: superheater wrote: What was the last GE 4 axle? Some P42DC built in 2002....... Quote: Likewise EMD? A GP15D, GP20D, or F59PH from 2001.... and ElectroMotive Diesel is now offering GP22ECO rebuilds..... |
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| Author: | superheater [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Last of Their Kind, 4 Axles from GE and EMD |
New construction, U.S. domestic freight. |
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| Author: | SteveC [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Last of Their Kind, 4 Axles from GE and EMD |
I think that ATSF ordered 80 or so of the Dash 8-40B-W in the 500 series. I think that these are the last of the 4 axle GE's for freight. The GE's they build for Amtrak (Also in the 500 series were actually freight units) may have been build after the ATSF units? I also think that for GM, they were the GP-60B units also built for ATSF. EDIT: I did some looking, and the Southern Pacific units were built into 1994, making them the last of the GP-60's Steve |
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| Author: | jmlaboda [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Last of Their Kind, 4 Axles from GE and EMD |
Hard to believe that the Espee units were delivered 20 years ago. And it has been even longer since the last GE B-B units were delivered to the Santa Fe (1992). But there are other units that have been delivered .. albeit not for freight service. The advent of the GenSet and a variety of environmental friendly rebuilds have dramatically changed the market for smaller units, with these locomotives being built using a variety of underframes ranging from early Geeps to recent EMD and GE power. Brookville has provided passenger BL20CH B-B units to Metro North and Connecticut D.O.T. and Motive Power, Inc., continues to provide larger four-axle commuter power as well. It is more so a rebuilder's market when it comes to orders for newer, smaller power and the radial trucks offered by both EMD and GE now allow for six-axle units to go where earlier units were unable to do so, making the need for newer B-B freight units not nearly as great as it use to be. The whole market in general is greatly different from what it was 10-, 15- to 20-years ago and we likely will never see a return to it, at least not in this hemisphere. The age of multiple B-B unit lash-ups on mainline trains has forever changed and we likely will not see a return to it in the future. "The times they are a changing!" For better or for worse. |
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