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D9-40CW

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 1, 2004 12:02 PM
CW really means C= 6 wheel trucks, W= wide cab
so a D8-40B would be 4 wheels a truck, and standard cab equipped!
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Posted by SSW9389 on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 5:50 PM
And the CW stands for catfish whiskers! Other than the previous comment I have no strong feelings about NS motive power one way or the other.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:56 PM
The "D" in D9-40CW stands for Dash. NS seems to use that nomenclature for their Dash-8's as well. The first production Dash-9's came out in late 1993.
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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:04 PM
Ok.. thanks CSXMU..
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:03 PM

Dash 9's started appearing in the early to mid 90's
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D9-40CW
Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:27 AM
I took this photo yesterday....

and I'm wondering when General Electric came out with the D9-40CW?
Thanks,
Jacon
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