Sd70acu For Horseshoe Curve

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  1. Yes I would love this on this route

  2. No I wouldn’t want this on this route

  3. Would want it on a different route

  4. Perfectly fine the way the route is now

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  1. Alaskan Jack

    Alaskan Jack Active Member

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    Inside cab of SD70ACU and in picture below more photos these Engines were used as helpers on Norfolk Southerns Horseshoe Curve and provided a lot of help to the trains on this route more so then the smaller SD40-2’s. These engines could also lead and be independent of the ESS44AC’s which are on this route but they are flexible engines and could also be used in any other routes made in USA including Canadian Pacific ,anyway good engines and would be a welcome addition to all USA routes.
     
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    Bring it on and these will form the Basis of CSX Version and the way to make them is use the Sherman Hill SD70ACE UP model then modify it to become SD70ACU Norfolk Southern
     
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    I tried wouldn’t let me load a bunch to same post
     
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    Norfolk Southern SD70ACU No. 7319 is ready, but not released for service, at the railroad’s shops in Altoona, Pa. The railroad has already completed two refits from SD90MACs.
    L.R. Myers of AltoonaWorks.info
    ALTOONA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern has released the first two of its rebuilt SD70ACU locomotives from its Altoona, Pa., shop in January. The program which began in 2015 is the latest for the railroad to upgrade older, less reliable locomotives in its fleet. The program draws from the 100 former Union Pacific SD90MACs acquired second hand from EMD.


    The rebuild program features a complete electrical upgrade, replacing the existing Siemens electrical equipment, including the inverters, with Mitsubishi electronics. The existing cab is replaced with a new isolated SD70ACe cab along with a number of other smaller changes to the locomotive during rebuild.

    The changes bring the locomotive up to essentially the same mechanical specification as EMDs SD70ACes. The first two SD70ACUs released from Altoona were NS Nos. 7248 and 7283 in January. Both units were sent to Progress Rail’s Muncie, Ind., plant for testing. A third unit, No. 7319, emerged from the Altoona paint shop this week.

    To accelerate the program, Norfolk Southern will have EMD rebuild a number of SD90MACs concurrent with the ongoing program at Altoona. The first four, NS Nos. 7262, 7267, 7280, and 7295 have already been shipped to Progress Rail’s Muncie plant to begin the rebuild program there.
     
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    Full cab view 7EBA5238-EAB3-43E6-A51A-32AE46EA6BD8.png
     

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