News Wire: KCS orders 50 new locomotives for delivery in 2019

[Brian Schmidt]

NEW YORK — Kansas City Southern has ordered 50 new locomotives for delivery next year in anticipation of continued traffic growth, CEO Patrick Ottensmeyer told an investor conference on Wednesday. “We actually just placed an order for so...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/05/23-kansas-city-southern-orders-50-new-locomotives-for-delivery-next-year

[kgbw49]

It will be interesting to see how many are Gabtec and how many are EMD.

[Ulrich]

50 new locomotives by early next year seems like it would be a tight time line for just one builder.. likely the 50 are split between both GE and EMD.

[NorthWest]

There's a lot of unused locomotive building capacity right now.

I'm interested to see how many credit units they are getting.

[kgbw49]

Could we see the second user of EMD SD70ACE-T4?

[HR616]

kgbw49

Could we see the second user of EMD SD70ACE-T4?

 

I wish KCS would get some, but as far as I've heard the order will be GE only (with a mixture of Tier 4 Credit and Tier 4 Compliant Gevos). KCS did borrow a couple of EMDX demos a while back, but I'm not sure if they were impressed.

As a side note, I believe BNSF is the second customer for the ACe-T4 with 10 on order. 

[YoHo1975]

Was going to say, BNSF has purchased the SD70AH-T4. KCS has purchased both ES44ACs and SD70ACes recently so until there's some confirmation there's no reason to believe 1 vs. the other.

[HR616]

Railway Gazette confirms that all 50 locomotives on order are GEs.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/traction-rolling-stock/single-view/view/kansas-city-southern-orders-50-locomotives.html