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As part of the NS/CSX assimiliation of Conrail both railroads ordered locomotives from EMD,to be delivered in kit form for assembly at Conrail's(now NS) Juniata shops. SD70S(conventional cab) 2557-2580 were built for NS,while SD70MACS 4130-4144 were built for CSX. While both orders of units were painted in Conrail paint,and were part of the Conrail roster,they were built to the specifications of the respective merger railroads. Essentially this was done for political and public relations reasons,the whole deal was well documented in Trains Magazine at the time. <br /> Interestingly, there was a lot of speculation premerger that in the motive power split,CSX would wind up with all of the SD80MACs,but they wound up splitting everything 50/50,despite NS's disdain for AC drive locomotives.
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