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i worked around the ns sd80macs for a couple of years as a jitney driver assigned to the shelocta coal trains. these trains have used sd80macs almost exclusively since january 2001. i have heard of no major problems with the mechanical aspects of these units. but the crews and maintenance people at conway do not seem to be adequately trained on the software that runs them. EMD has been out to fix software problems at least once that i know of. i've seen these units do some amazing things during my time on the sheloctas. they are strong enough to break a rail under the right conditions, especially the 80 year old rail on the shelocta runner. i've seen 3 of them start 100 cars of coal on a grade approaching 2%. it is a shame there are not more of them. the second batch of 28 were actually ordered by conrail. EMD assigned an order number to them before they were cancelled. there were also reported to be options for a total of 106 of them.
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