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BNSF Orders EMD SD70ACe's for 2006
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by joegreen</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by rdganthracite</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by bnsfengineer</i> <br /><br />As a engineer I hate the GEVO, and for that fact I don't like and GE's. Take them all to the scrap yard. I have been running coal trains for 3 years now and GE just cannot do what GM does. The dash 9, AC4400cw, the GEVO all slip and slide all over the rails. The desk top shakes and you can barely hear yourself think. All I can say is junk, junk, junk. The brand new Gevo has one thing going for them and that is I like the cab set up as for the the control stand, but that is about it. I love running anything GM. I would take an SD40-2 or especially an old Oakway SD60 anyday. Now SD70Mac's are about the best engines ever built. I had moved 128 loaded coal cars with just one Mac and that engine did not know the word quit. I hope the SD70Ace is about the same. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I am not an engineer nor do I pretend to be. But what you say is exactly opposite of what the engineers I talk to on NS and CSX say. They detest the SD50s, SD60s, SD70s and SD70ACs as being extremely slippery on anything other than perfectly dry rail. I have been told several times that even the morning dew is enough to cause them to lose thier feet. Every one of the engineers I talk to prefer the newer GEs or the GP40-2 plus slug sets. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Remember BNSF and NS are different railroads. <br /> <br />If NS is having problems with the SD70M-2 then why did they order so many in the first place, and why did they order so many more after the first were delivered? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Yes, joegreen is correct that BNSF and NS are different railroads, but how many cars does NS run on their coal trains? BNSF is running trains with 135 cars, at 19 thousand tons with 1 and 1 dp. Now that is doing some pulling which the GE cannot do very well with out slipping. The Mac does a very good job for these types of trains and BNSF has started running 150 car trains to the Thomas Hill power plant in Missouri. These have been test trains that bnsf has ran a couple of times and only with Mac's for power.
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