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UP 2010, an ES44AC Boy Scouts of America tribute unit, was unveiled on 31 March 2010, in Houston, Texas to commemorate 100 years of Boy Scouts. The unit was renumbered from 7469. However, in early 2022 it was repainted into the Union Pacific lettered scheme after months of sitting in storage. It kept its number of 2010. [22]
UP AC44CW #6655 sits with a Union Pacific Railroad GE Evolution Series ES44AC #7494. The GE AC4400CW, , sometimes referred as "AC44CW", is a 4,400 horsepower (3,300 kW) diesel-electric locomotive that was built by GE Transportation Systems between 1993 and 2004.
However, due to repeated failures, all Norfolk Southern C40-8's will be sold or scrapped, and 47 new ET44AC and three ES44AC locomotives will replace them. Last remaining units retired in 2017. Union Pacific Railroad: 255 9100-9355, [3] 9185 (2nd) 9185 (first) returned to GE, became testbed.
Union Pacific, CSX, and CPKC have rebuilt several hundred AC4400CW into AC4400CWM models. The AC44C4M is a rebuild similar to the AC44C6M, but AC44C4M locomotives feature 4 traction motors and an A1A-A1A configuration rather than the AC44C6M's 6-traction motors in a C-C configuration. This is similar to the ES44C4 and ET44C4 that BNSF also ...
At 4:36 p.m. on November 15, 2012, an eastbound Union Pacific Railroad freight train hauling intermodal containers, led by Union Pacific ES44AC locomotive no. 7877, Union Pacific SD70ACe 8497, Norfolk Southern C40-9W 8934, and Union Pacific ES44AC 7653, traveling 62 miles per hour (100 km/h) [1] en route to Shreveport, Louisiana from Los Angeles, California, struck a flat-bed semi-trailer that ...
A total of 756 examples of the model were built, with the first being delivered to Union Pacific in 1990. The C40-8W was continuously upgraded over the course of its production. Later model Conrail units were built with split cooling systems for the turbocharger intercooler and engine cooling (previous Dash 8 series had both on the same cooling ...
The GE C44-9W is a 4,400 hp (3,281 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems of Erie, Pennsylvania.Keeping in tradition with GE's locomotive series nicknames beginning with the "Dash 7" of the 1970s, the C44-9W was dubbed the Dash 9 upon its debut in 1993.
This version of the Dash 9 was manufactured between January and March 1995. All 125 examples of this model are owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway.. The C40-9 is the only model in the Dash 9 Series to feature the standard cab design.