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The GEVO's have had a lot of growing pains since arriving on the property. I think this coupled with EMD's seperation from GM, as well as their increase in horsepower to 4300 has spurred BNSF to go back to EMD after 7 years of snubbing. I wouldnt expect BNSF to stop buying GE anytime soon, but if the sd70aces perform, and if EMD can meet production demands (which it really can't right now), I would expect BNSF to return to EMD for SOME of their locomotive needs. I predict that BNSF will be buying strictly AC for the foreseeable future. Coal business is booming, and DC locomotives don't like grinding up a hill at 8 miles per hour. They did the right thing by getting as many Dash 9s as they could before the new EPA regulations went into effect, and they now have their core DC fleet in the Dash 9s, Dash 8s, and remaining SD40s. Once there are enough new ACs to meet coal demand, perhaps the SD60Ms and SD75Ms can be released into normal service, and more SD40s can be retired. The Dash 9s are reliable and perform well on intermodal and manifest trains with good hpt. They are not meant to be in coal service, and therefore an engineer in coal service would likely see them as junk, because they just aren't designed for grinding up a hill. I dont know about GE's AC locos, but junk or not, they are just going to keep coming, because GE can crank out the locomotives to meet BNSF's demand. And if 1 in 30 of them fails, que sera, the coal still needs power to move it. Just my humble opinion.
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