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[quote user="cascadenorthernrr"] And here is where I got "Big Jack" from! "The <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#222222;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;">DD40AX is a 6,600 hp (4.92 MW) <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="AAR wheel arrangement" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAR_wheel_arrangement#D-D">D-D</a> <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="Diesel locomotive" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#Diesel-electric">diesel-electric</a> built by the <a class="mw-redirect" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="General Motors Corporation" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Corporation">General Motors</a> <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="Electro-Motive Diesel" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Motive_Diesel">EMD</a> division of <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="La Grange, Illinois" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grange,_Illinois">La Grange, Illinois</a> for the <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="Union Pacific Railroad" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad">Union Pacific Railroad</a>. Nicknamed "Centennial" and "Big Jack", the DD40AX uses two <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="Diesel engine" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine">diesel engines</a> (each 3,300 hp (2.46 MW)) and is the most powerful single-unit diesel locomotive ever built, although more recent locomotive designs such as the <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="GE AC6000CW" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_AC6000CW">GE AC6000CW</a> and <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;" title="EMD SD90MAC" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SD90MAC">EMD SD90MAC</a>have come close. It is also the longest single-unit diesel locomotive ever built.<sup id="cite_ref-Strack_1-0" class="reference" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#222222;line-height:1;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif;font-size:0.75em;background-image:none;"><a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px currentColor;color:#5a3696;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:nowrap;background-image:none;" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_DDA40X#cite_note-Strack-1">[1]</a>" -wikipedia <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote] Edited wikipedia, requesting a source for the unverified information.
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