EMD's missing loco's

[Anonymous]

I just visited the EMD website again and thought something was missing. They are showing a DC loco, an AC loco and one switcher. I thought they had a 6000 hp AC loco and a smaller model switcher as well. Did they stop making these? Does this have anything to do with the selloff of EMD? Or did I miss the webpage redesign?

[ericsp]

EMD used to make SD80MACs and SD90MACs (and would probably make more if a railroad wanted enough). Here is the story as I understand it, railroads found them to have too much power for one locomotive, so they prefered the SD70 series and EMD dropped the higher horsepower locomotives from its catalog.

[oltmannd]

Those are the only ones they have that currently meet Tier II emissions regulations. If a customer wanted an SD90MAC, and was offering a major order, EMD would jump though hoops to provide.

Right now, the market has settled down on 4000-4400 HP AC and DC locomotives, so that is what EMD went to work on meeting Tier II

[Anonymous]

THNX.
GE is still putting out 6000hp loco's, but I guess they can aford to keep the assembly lines going. They are the market leader know. No offense, but I like EMD better. Maybe with thier new owners they can get R&D money.[;)]

[oltmannd]

I don't think GE has produced any 6000 HP locos for a few years. Only CSX and UP have any that I'm aware of. But, since it's basically a 16 cyl version of their lastest model, it wouldn't take much to get it certified and into production, I suppose.