AC6000 Union Pacific 6945 leads 28A through Austell! 1/3/2026 3:07 PM скачать в хорошем качестве

AC6000 Union Pacific 6945 leads 28A through Austell! 1/3/2026 3:07 PM

My second favorite GE locomotive! 28A is a “new” split up of 28J which keeps it from being too long for its jog across CPKC trackage. Instead of going all the way to Jacksonville, the 28A portion simply ends in Atlanta. WARNING TO UNION PACIFIC RAILFANS: I cannot follow any of the UP road designations for locomotive models. I instead use the manufacturer designations that I CAN remember, and that you will probably find scale models named after anyways. The GE AC6000CW was the first single-engine diesel locomotive to surpass 6,000 horsepower and win the horsepower race between GE Transportation and Electro Motive Diesel (Electro Motive Division). This led to the EMD release of the SD90MAC as their counterpart. They were bought by 3 railroads: Union Pacific, CSX Transportation, and the Australian BHP Iron Ore. Currently, only Union Pacific still has and uses any of theirs (although the BHP units were used as the base for their unique ES44 GEVOs). CSX downrated and sold all of their AC6000s, save for 600, 601 “Spirit of Waycross”, and 602 “Spirit of Maryland”, which are all in storage. Union Pacific has downrated and rebuilt several of theirs to the same specs as a CM44AC (AC4400CWM). The AC6000s had a lot of inherent problems resulting from their enormous outputs. On any railroad they ran on, their huge torque had a tendency to rip couplers apart, and on routes not prepared for such heavy locomotives they would damage the tracks they ran on. UP was somewhat prepared along routes where they had run the 4-6-6-4 Challenger and 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotives, DD35, DD35A, and DD40AX diesel locomotives, and any of their turbines. Some CSX tracks that once had hosted mallet or articulated type steam locomotives were also prepared, but much of their network wasn’t and would be reinforced for the usage of the AC6000s, especially along routes of high intermodal traffic, which they specialized at. UP 6945 is one of the rebuilds. Locomotives: -GE AC6000CW (rebuild) Union Pacific 6945 -GE ES44AC Union Pacific 7632