https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_AC6000CW I was searching on youtube for American locomotives and I found the above thing. Devs is it possible that we can have this for tsw4
1. None in service are still rated at 6000hp, they have either been retired (CSX and Australia) or derated to 4400 (UP) making them identical in performance to an AC44. 2. This is not the suggestion thread.
Union Pacific still has theirs, but like I stated earlier, they are derated to 4400. This photo was taken last year, and the 2nd unit is an AC6000CW.
So? Whats the point? Just saying Can't differentiate between those GE locomotives. People are easily offended for literally everything.
Yet, you were the one who 1st decided to respond to this thread, so why are you in here if you dont care?
And that's none of your business unless I take your name or quote you in for an argument. That's my opinion of those locomotives. THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME!!!
So you just closed your eyes and stuck a pin in a list of American locomotives and came up with the least-likely-to-be-built example. And then you decided to open a poll!? And posted it in the wrong sub-forum!? In the unlikely event that this obsolete loco ever gets built, where do you suggest we run it?
Is there a Dash 9 General Electric DC traction in TSW yet? Sand Patch has AC traction. I think you'll find that might be next.
Ah! Okay, remembered what I was thinking of. When GE built its first batch of 106 AC6000s for UP, the 7HDL engine wasn't ready yet so they were delivered with 4400-hp 7FDLs, together with a promise to swap out the prime movers later. UP designated these AC4460CW. In the event, after bad experiences with the full-on 6000s, UP declined to have the 4460s re-engined. In later years UP (and CSX) gave up on the HDL and had all their 6000s (and SD90MACs) downrated, but I don't know whether those got a designation change.
Most if not all of UPs AC4460s are getting rebuilt into C44ACMs, though nothing is really changed externally.
Ah yes, the heady days of the " horsepower race ". I guess GE and EMD figured out that the hp of a single engine was limited in practice and settled on 4 -4.5k as the best they could do. I think one original AC6000 is in preservation somewhere. Whether it ever runs, I wouldn't know.
What's funny is neither one of them started that race, it was Morrison Knudsen that started it with their 5000hp MK5000C. GE responded with the AC6000CW and EMD with the SD80MAC, SD89MAC, and SD90MAC.
Proper routes for it are UP Oregon Short Line or CSX Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to Rockwood Pennsylvania line. If derated they are likely to use ES58Aci specs and another Forum had CSX AC6000CW fitted with ES58Aci engines 6k hp from December 2007 to September 2009.
BHP (Western Australia which is my state) had some AC6000s as well but they didn't last long.... Even though they are the some of the newest locomotives...they have ALL been scrapped. I would say this fits into the DDX category.... https://railpage.com.au/locos/bhp-ac6000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_DDA40X
You are correct on that topic however the railroad magazine seem to only focus on General Electric and electromotive Diesel. For GE which is now Wabtec locomotives they offer AC6000CW successor model ES58Aci 5800-6000hp. Speaking of the ES58ACI some of the class one railroads can ordered that here in the United States like BNSF CSX UP and Norfolk Southern where it's capabilities are needed like Marias Pass over the Continental Divide and Rocky Mountains
